Xterm

[Dean Brown]

Ralph Stickley wrote:
> 
> 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.

I am running as root!!! :(

> 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...)

I did this as well. I got the same Segmentation fault error.
 
> 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

I'll give that a try and see what I see.
 
> 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!:)

I'm still working on it. My application doesn't actually require me to
run an xterm, but I hate unsolved puzzles!!! Xterm is the only
application that I've tried that actually has problems. xmag, oclock,
xload, all have been tried and work fine.

Thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only one with this problem.
I was beginning to believe that I was doing something completely stupid.

> 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?
> >
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> >
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