On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Allen Briggs wrote:

> with pain I installed all the 1.4 distribution on my Mac][ (somewhy i
> had do shut down some of the scsi-devices otherwise i would continue
> getting scsi errors in the install program)
> 
> the problem is of course X
> 
> - first launch: grey back, X in the middle, doesn't move on mouse..
> stays there forever without disk activity
> 
> - second launch after the before it gets back to console and says
> X connection to: 0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shut down)
> 
> - third launch all the before plus:
> _x11ranssockect..... can't connect errno = 61
> [message about being in root mode]
> xterm Xt ewrror: can't open display: %s

Are you in multi-user mode when you start X? You cannot run X in
single-user mode. The following url contains a general procedure for
breaking out of "rc" at start-up so you can check or edit rc.conf

<http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/x/index.html#bypassing_xdm>

[Ctrl-\ == SIGQUT works, too.]