On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, J.T. Conklin wrote:

> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Callanan <ccallana@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu> writes:
> 
> Chris> I am having some problems getting Xwindows running on my 3.60 with 1.1.
> 
> Chris> When i run 'startx' it starts up, but then dies part way thru with just
> Chris> the message that X is going down, and i get a bunch of core files in my
> Chris> directory.
> 
> Hmm.  This sounds familiar.  I recently brought down my 3/60 to
> upgrade to -current and add more memory.  After it came up, the
> X server would start, all of the X applications (xterm, xload, 
> twm, etc.) would dump core and then the server would exit.
> 
> Running ldd showed some garbage (note lines 3 & 4):
> 
> 	$ ldd xterm
> 	xterm:
>         -lXaw.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.0 (0x2040000)
>         -lXmu.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 (0x2070000)
>         -l.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 (0x2080000)
>        yb^|.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0 (0x20bc000)
>         -lSM.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0 (0x2124000)
>         -lICE.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.0 (0x212c000)
>         -lXext.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0 (0x213a000)
>         -ltermcap.0 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.0.0 (0x2144000)
>         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12.3 (0x2148000)
> 
> So I removed the ldconfig cashe (/var/run/ld.so.hints), re-ran
> ldconfig, and tried again.  It still failed.  I did this a few
> times and it started working.  Since this is my production 
> machine, I haven't spent any time investigating it.
> 

Yet another "me too". I'm seeing it on several 3/60's here. I did
notice the ldd corrupt output as well. At one point the problem seemed to
persist over a reboot, but thats probably just a red herring.

Jon