Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:32:43PM +0200, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > > Ok, after being just plain stupid, I thought about runnen strace... > >=20 > > It seems to me something is going wrong while reading from > > /etc/X11/banner/XBanner1.ras > > It opens (read-only), reads a bit of data, and then goes reading "", > > closes and segfaults ;( > > Of course: i'm not a hero ;)) > > The Xsun* servers in Debian toss up a splash screen which is stored in that > directory. XBanner1.ras is a monochrome Sun raster file. > > I don't know why this operation is bombing.
FWIW, on my IPC I have exactly the same failure mode (I had run strace, and was about to mail this problem this morning, when it occured to me to RTFarchives). > I may have an unstripped server binary around that you can use; then when > it cores a reasonable backtrace can be done. > > However, I'm pretty sure that development on that line of X server is dead; > efforts have moved over to Sun hardware support via the XFree86 4.x server. I note that a previous poster said they had a binary with Xfree86 4.x support for the bw2. I'm willing to try that in the future, but would rather not download it over my sucky modem connection; so if anyone has a workaround (remove the offending raster file?), I'd be grateful. As an aside, my x86 box displays the raster files fine... Thanks, Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org
