From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: [BUG] bootsys ver 4 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 12:00:17 GMT
Mike Jagdis (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk) wrote:
:
: Rs> 3) BIG ONE: My X hangs up with this init stuff. It just
: Rs> seems to hog itself down, like if there is not enouth
: Rs> memory (swap is enabled) or some infinite loop.
:
: That's got me beat though. Works for me... How are you starting X? startx?
: xinit? xdm? Where from? Command line? Inittab? What applications are started
: automatically when you start X up?
If you put xdm in the inittab as in the example then you should have
an entry like
xdm:5:respawn:/usr/X386/bin/xdm -nodaemon
The option is importent otherwise init forks off xdm's all over the place
which cause confusion for init and the X server