Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!larryp
From: larryp@sco.COM (Larry Philps)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: FATAL SERVER BUG WITH X11R4, SUN 3/80,SunOS 4.? HELP !!
Keywords: X11R4 , Sun 3/80, Gnu Gcc (vers. 1.37.1) , FATAL Server Bug.
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.085552.7821@sco.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 12:55:52 GMT
References: <566@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
Reply-To: larryp@socius.UUCP (Larry Philps)
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc. (formerly HCR Corporation)
Lines: 25

In article <566@creatures.cs.vt.edu> sequeira@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Horace L. Sequeira) writes:
>
>
>Help:  I've been trying to make X11 release 4 on a Sun 3/80 with
>Gnu's Gcc (version 1.37.1) compiler. When I try to run xinit or Xsun I get the
>following error :
>******************************************************************
>
>Getting interface configuration: Operation not supported on socket
>
>Fatal server bug!
>no screens found

I had the same problem.  It is a bug in gcc not in X.  I tracked it down
to the fact that gcc was botching the ioctl calls in the server init code.
I did not try to find the bug in gcc, but rather just recompiled X with
the Sun C compiler.  All worked fine after that.

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