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From: carrow@nrl-cmf.UUCP (Steven Carrow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: R4 server dying on Sparcs running 4.0
Summary: Honest, I did the fixincludes thing!
Keywords: X11R4, Sun, Sparc, gcc
Message-ID: <105@nrl-cmf.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 90 03:56:10 GMT
Organization: Society for the Creatively Deluded
Lines: 46


Folks,

	My X server is curling up and dying on me. The particulars:
	
	* X11R4 on Sparcs (bw2 and cg3) running SunOS 4.0
	* Compiled with cc where -pic was required, gcc elsewhere
	* Window manager: twm
	* Clients in .twmrc: xrdb, xsetroot, xhost, xterm

	Symptoms:

	* Server compiles successfully, but upon invoking xinit, the
stippled screen comes up and stays up. If I have redirected stderr, my
prompt eventually reappears, but "kbd_mode -a" is necessary to restore
function; if stderr comes to the screen, a series of bizarre events
occur: error messages come up, I am logged out, and the "login:"
prompt comes up. The kicker here is that keystrokes then simply act as
consecutive newlines: hit 'a', and the prompt scrolls up twice. The
error messages are the usual:

XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "unix:0.0"
      after 3 requests (2 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.

except that subsequent messages replace "unix:0.0" with "(null)".

	The usual suspects (tentatively eliminated):

	* Fixincludes - I screwed that up earlier; fixed now. Not the
same messages this time.
	* Shared libraries - No ld-type messages.
	* A botched client - I have tried this with various
permutations of my .xinitrc; it never even gets to xsetroot.

	If anyone has any ideas, please email me; even a list of
things to watch for on the Sparcs would be appreciated. Thanks loads.

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