Subject: twm core dumps, is there a FAQ?
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dan McMahill <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/02/1998 15:52:42
Hi,

I'm new to NetBSD/pmax, but have been using NetBSD/mac68k for several years.

I installed the stock 1.3 release last weekend on a Decstation 5000/200.
There seem to either be some bugs in sysinst and/or the install document.
I'll try to summarize those later.

My question at this point, is:  twm core dumps every few minutes.  In particular,
if I open a window, `xterm`, for example, and then close the window `exit` in
said xterm, twm immediately dumps core.

For myself, I have just installed fvwm2 as I prefer it, but my wife is a twm fan
(makes it like the computer at school).  Any ideas?  

dmesg returns:

NetBSD 1.3 (GENERIC) #2: Tue Dec 30 01:16:36 PST 1997
    jonathan@Reno.DSG.Stanford.EDU:/reno/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 41943040
avail mem = 34926592
using 1024 buffers containing 4194304 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R3000 CPU Rev. 2.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 3.0
        L1 cache: 64kb Instruction, 64kb Data.
tc0 at mainbus0: 25 MHz clock
(configuring KN02 system slot as asic)
asic0 at tc0 slot 7 offset 0x0
dc0 at asic0 offset 0x200000 priority 7address 0x0xbfe00000

clock0 at asic0 offset 0x280000 priority 0: mc146818 or compatible
le0 at tc0 slot 6 offset 0x0: address 08:00:2b:1b:c1:24
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
asc0 at tc0 slot 5 offset 0x0 (bus speed: 25 MHz) : target 7
le1 at tc0 slot 2 offset 0x0: address 08:00:2b:1a:80:19
le1: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
sfb0 at tc0 slot 0 offset 0x0 (1280x1024x8) (console)
Beginning old-style SCSI device autoconfiguration
rz0 at asc0 drive 0 slave 0 DEC RZ56     (C) DEC rev 0300
rz0: 634MB, 1632 cyl, 15 head, 53 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1299174 sectors
boot device: rz0
root on rz0a dumps on rz0b
root file system type: ffs


The video card is a pmagb-b.  

dan@sy-borg (112)-% ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8 Feb 28  1997 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> Xcfbpmax
dan@sy-borg (113)-% more /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers 
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -fp tcp/127.0.0.1:7100

(by the way, localhost doesn't work in place of 127.0.0.1 on this machine).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dan