[comp.unix.aux] X11 ate my AUX partitions!

dmac@athena.mit.edu (David McCormick) (10/23/90)

I am new to aux, unix, and X. I have been trying to install aux and X on a 
MaxIIfx with a 3rd party Maxtor 200 mb hard disk. I have tried 
partitioning the disk with Silverlining 1.26 and with a beta copy of the 
manufacturer's software. The partitioning seems to be OK, but whenever I 
finally get X11 session running I get "can't load /dev/kmem" and Xload 
won't work. A few sessions later, X11 hangs, and when I reboot I cannot 
get access to aux: I get the message "panic: kernal memory error". The 
next time I reboot, I don't even get this far. I use fsck and esch and all 
these disk error messages appear. Kaput. What's the deal? So far my 
eschtology partions have been 3 and 4 mb, swap 18-20mb, mac os 60 mb, and 
the rest aux root&usr.
Any help would be tremendously appreciated.

David McCormick
MIT-EAPS
Bldg 54-1016
Cambridge, MA 02139
dmac@athena.mit.edu

x@springer.Apple.COM (X Windows) (10/23/90)

In article <1990Oct23.142923.8392@athena.mit.edu>, dmac@athena.mit.edu
(David McCormick) writes:
|> I get "can't load /dev/kmem" and Xload 
|> won't work.

xload needs "set group id 'sys'" permissions, e.g.:

	-rwxr-sr-x   1 bin      sys       256068 Oct 10 12:54
/usr/bin/X11/xload

You don't mention where you obtained your X distribution. Apple's
product xload client ships with the proper permissions, have you built
your own xload?

|> X11 ate my AUX partitions!

Doubtful, not in the protocol ... :-)
--
Steve Peters
X Project Leader
Apple Computer, Inc.
peters@apple.apple.com