Xterm

[Ralph Stickley]

Dean,
I had the same problem and never got this fixed properly.
I ended up running the system as root user - seems a 
permission problem or something.
BTW, if you go to a console, can you start xterm ?
<ctr><alt><F8>
<alt><F2>

This should give you a login prompt (if you have another
getty setup in your sysinit file ??)
login as root and type:

export DISPLAY=:0
xterm &
then press 
<alt><f7> (if you have 6 gettys setup)
--or--
<alt><f4> (if you only have 3 gettys setup, etc...)

This should start the xterm program (or at least
show some error messages that may help explain why
its not working).  Also there is a program "strace" IIRC
that prints out the system calls - capture the output from:

strace xterm 2> xxx

and see if you notice what the program is doing.

Wish I could say for sure what the problem is...if you
find out, let us know!:)

Later,
Ralph Stickley

(already lost most of my hair!)

--- Dean Brown <dean@amiga.com> wrote:
> Ok, I've another problem that is causing me to lose hair!
> 
> I have a basic multiuser linux install up and running on a 32MByte CF
> card. I am now attempting to get X running as well. Using XF86_FBDev and
> fvwm2 I can get X up with an oclock onscreen in 800x600 mode on the
> target hardware. What I have not been able to do is open an xterm
> window. 
> 
> By not spawning the xterm, I have been able to get a failure message of
> 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)'. Does anyone have an idea as to why
> this is happening? 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Dean Brown
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