On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Neal Harvey wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 17:08:21 +0000
> From: Neal Harvey <nealh@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
> To: port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Xterm problem
> 
> My 3/60 is currently refusing to run Xterm. X starts up, the window
> manager runs, the xclock runs, I can change the backgrounds and so
> on. It appears that the only thing it won't do is run Xterm. If
> I attempt to start one it thinks for a bit then dumps core, 
> occasionally shutting down the server and even declaring a
> segmentation fault now and again.
> 
> The system is an 8mb 3/60 with a CG4, netbooting from a 486 running
> FreeBSD-2.0.5-RELEASE, with all storage on NFS. In every other
> respect it ticks along quite happily, it just won't run Xterm.
> 
> If someone out there could enlighten me, I'd be exceedingly grateful,
> 
> Neal Harvey.
> 
> 
> 
> 
How big is your swap space? That is what I would try to increase first.
By the way my own 3/60 decieded to tell me the scsi bus is busy even if I
shut the entire machine down and reboot.  I just hope the scsi chip has 
not died.

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