ronb@natmlab.dap.csiro.au (Ron Baxter) (07/24/90)
We have just received a DS5000/200 with Sony 19" color
screen. The ULTRIX 4.0 was copied onto the disk by DEC,
and while ULTRIX boots OK, the X server dumps core.
Any suggestions or hints would be appreciated.
The details of our ULTRIX 4.0 are
OPERATING SYSTEM ULTRIX 32
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Jul 23 20:10:54 1990 EDT
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM pain.syd.dms
SYSTEM ID x82020120 HW REV: x20
FW REV: x1
CPU TYPE: R2000A/R3000
PROCESSOR TYPE KN02/R3000
MESSAGE ULTRIX V4.0 (Rev. 174) System #1: Mon
_Jul 23 19:47:43 EDT 1990
real mem = 16777216
avail mem = 11812864
using 409 buffers containing 1675264
_bytes of memory
KN02 processor - system rev 32
cpu0 ( version 2.0, implementation 2 )
fpu0 ( version 2.0, implementation 3 )
asc0 at ibus5
rz0 at asc0 slave 0 (RZ56)
ln0 at ibus6
ln0: DEC LANCE Ethernet Interface,
_hardware address: 08:00:2b:16:45:d1
dc0 at ibus7
ga0 at ibus0
ga0 ( 8 plane 5x1 stamp )
The X server of this ULTRIX distribution is
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1744896 May 19 02:40 /usr/bin/Xcfb
and the checksum given by "sum Xcfb" is
07538 1704
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| \ \/ | \| _|__} Email: ronb@syd.dms.csiro.aujg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (07/24/90)
Yeah, you are running the wrong X server on your machine, which is a 2DA (DS5000/PX). You are attempting to run the color frame buffer server (which runs on the CX option). It is unfriendly that Xcfb core dumps rather than give you a bit more helpful message. At some point in time, this trap for the unwary will go away, with a single server that will run on either kind of hardware (as a side effect of the multi-screen work). Not sure what release that will be, however. BTW, thanks for the detailed bug report, as the boot sequence tells the tale exactly. - Jim