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From: harry@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Harry Phinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X11R4 problems on HPUX 7.0
Message-ID: <101950178@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 23:44:12 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.143556@dali.gatech.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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Mike Gourlay writes:
>	I have a MIT copy of X11R4 running on my HPUX 7.0 9000s300 370,
> but the source was compiled on a HPUX 6.5.  I don't know if that's 
> important,

It most defintely is important.

> Console login: user
> Password: 
> utmp entry missing.  Must run login from lowest level of 'sh.'

>	People from HP have told me that the problem does not come from
> the HPUX 6.5 / HPUX 7.0 incompatibility.  Whatever.  After a while, I
> got the X server from hpcvaaz ~ftp/pub/XServers/X.7.03.300.Z and
> the problem persists.

People from HP lied to you :-) The problem is that the utmp file
structure changed from HP-UX 6.5 to HP-UX 7.0.  The HP-UX 6.5 terminal
emulator programs (xterm and hpterm) do not know how to correctly write
to the HP-UX 7.0 utmp file, and they corrupt it.  The server is not
involved in this problem.

> can someone offer a set of
> R4 binaries to me?  

Can you use the xterm and hpterm which were supplied with
HP-UX 7.0?

Harry Phinney   harry@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com