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From: sscherr@cs.wright.edu (Stephen Scherr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: disturbing error message
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.175859.20357@cs.wright.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 17:58:59 GMT
References: <9104122033.AA00383@nazgul.physics.mcgill.ca>
Organization: Wright State University
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concerning the 'core file access error', SGI told me it was some weird
interaction with the X-server, and that I should ignore it.
I discovered due to a fortuitous error message that making sure that
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/*/fonts.dir existed and contained a '0' for
directories with no fonts in them, cured the problem.

The core file was sitting in /tmp, and if user A was the first to log in
after /tmp was cleared, and then user B logged in, B couldn't write his
core on top of the file owned by A.

Steve Scherr