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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problems installing X11R2 on a VAXstation
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Date: 16 Sep 88 14:41:18 GMT
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>	- starting xinit from a vt100 starts up the Xqvss server and the
>	  xterm application. problem is the cursor is just a blank white 
>	  rectangle, that doesn't changes when you move over the xterm
>...
>	and sending a HUP to init starts up the X server on the screen
>	but no xterm appears. after the 30 seconds the server starts to
>	behave weird, it clears the screen and slowly builds up the back-
>	ground again. It keeps repeating this action every 30, 40 seconds.

sure sounds like you don't have fonts installed correctly.
(in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/, by default).  Cursors come from fonts,
and xterms die if they can't find fonts.  Servers reset when their
last client dies...