> 1. Created the partitions in the following order using APS v2.3.7

Can you send me the output of a "disklabel sd0" from before you start
X?  Also the output from "df -i" since your first message is "out of
inodes."

> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: Prior

To lose these messages, do "startx > x.out 2>&1" (assuming bash ;-).

> At this point none of the commands worked so I hit the programmers
> switch to go into debugger mode.  I then typed 'call synch' but nothing
> happened!  So, I manually rebooted the machine and verified that my
> MacOS partions were still readable.

Ugh.  Very poor behavior--it smells like a corrupted filesystem, but you
shouldn't have one of those...  Is it running fsck when it boots?

-allen

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