On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> Speaking of weirdness, I have an even stranger svscan problem, on my
> home machine running FreeBSD 4.1: If I start svscan from /etc/rc.local
> (in the line after xdm startup), my X server hangs, or rather it does
> not seem to recognise any keyboard input. Most keypresses elicit no
> response at all, while Alt-Ctrl-Fn (for n!=2) produces the usual "no
> virtual console there" beep. With such an unresponsive machine, I
> have no option other than hitting the reset button. Not a hint in any
> log file as to what can be the cause of this. If I start svscan after
> logging in, there is no problem. And whether it is me or rc.local
> starting the program, it happens through a shell script which really
> boils down to env - PATH=... svscan, so changes in the environment
> should be sort of irrelevant.
>
> (I don't really expect the list to solve this one for me, but if
> someone has a reasonable possible explanation, it might save me a lot
> of work trying to debug it.)
Why not start xdm from /etc/ttys ? Outa curiousity does xdm work
normally if you don't start svscan?
Vince.
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