On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> I have managed to reproduce this at last ):.  A 5000/150 consistently
> starts xfs, xdm and X without any problems, as long as I don't do
> ntpdate and start xntpd.  When I do those two, the first Xserver hangs. 
> I'm guessing it's a race of some kind on /dev/console, or possibly, just
> possibly, a bug in the select() emulation.

My vote is for a race...  I had a similar problem with my 2100: the first
xserver wouldn't read keypresses from the console keyboard.  After putting
a sleep before firing up xdm in rc, the problem went away.

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