On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Rob Mohr wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 03, 1998 7:33 PM, Michael L. Hitch 
> [SMTP:mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu] wrote:
> >
> >   Try adding a "sleep 5" between the xfs startup and the xdm startup.
> > I suspect a problem when the X server tries to open the connection to
> > the font server before the font server is ready.
> 
> This is what I thought at first also.  The problem with this analysis is 
> that I am starting xfs during bootup via the rc.conf file with the 
> following entry:
> 
> xfs=YES	xfs_flags=""	#X11 font server
> 
> and I am running xinit from the command line with:
> 
> xinit -- -fp tcp/localhost:7100
> 
> There should be plenty of time for the font server to be ready to process 
> requests.  There has to be something else going on here besides a timing 
> problem.
> 
> Rob Mohr
> 

Someone tracked this problem down to something to do w/ job control when
xfs starts. Something like "set -E" before and "set +E" after (or was it
"+E" and "-E"?) the xfs command in the rc script was the magic
incantation...

Take care,

Bill