edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) (05/30/90)
I've been busily attempting to bring up the recently posted version of X11R4. My server seems to be running, and I can get twm and a number of clients (xclock, xcalc) working. But I've hit a brick wall: xterm causes an instantaneous system crash. As near as I can tell the problem occurs during the initialization of the pseudo-terminal device to be used for terminal emulation (i.e. not the server connection). Since everyone else has been using 386/ix 2.02 as their base, I'm wondering if there have been some repairs to the pseudoterminal driver between releases, or other such changes. Were there patches? Upgrading is, alas, not a near-term solution (I'll eventually be moving to 2.2 (or the new SysVR4-based product if I string things out long enough and upgrades are possible), but not for a little while). Any tips? Fixes? -Ed Hall edhall@rand.org