From: devtrix@netcom.com (Matthew B. Wood)
Message-Id: <199512200351.TAA01725@netcom21.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Xserver trouble...
To: mike.long@analog.com
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:51:51 -0800 (PST)
Cc: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <9512191549.AA12482@cthulhu> from "Mike Long" at Dec 19, 95 10:49:09 am
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> >Now I seem to be getting the error but I seem to be able to launch an 
> >Xwindow OK in spite of this.  Does anyone know where I might look to tune 
> >this up?
> 
> This may be a permissions problem on your xterm binary.
> /usr/bin/X11/xterm is usually installed setuid root so that it can use
> the TIOCCONS ioctl to get console output (the -C flag).
> 
> (Question: shouldn't the UCONSOLE kernel compile option make this
> unnecessary?)
> 
> If that doesn't fix it, then try
> 
> ktrace -i xterm
> 
> and send us the results from kdump.
> -- 
> Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>           http://www.shore.net/~mikel
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Mike, it was definitely a permissions problem.  I had been playing around 
with them a bit under 1.0/1.0a.  Thanks for the tip!

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