Thanks Alan for the background information!

Regarding the Xorg file sizes the i386 is 2.1MB, but amd64 is only 
1.1MB, which seems to be too small. I hope you're wrong and I don't have 
any more truncated files on my system.

Lubos.

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> /usr/X11/bin/Xorg should be very small - it just checks if you're running
> the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel and runs either /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg or
> /usr/X11/bin/amd64/Xorg as appropriate.
>
> It sounds however, like your copy of /usr/X11/bin/amd64/Xorg has become
> corrupted - it should be about 2.3 Mb, not very small - which could be a
> bug that people have reported to pkg-discuss last week with incomplete
> files being downloaded when updating from the pkg repos.
>
>       -Alan Coopersmith-           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>        Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
> Lubomir Petrik wrote:
>   
>> It turned out the core file is at /var/lib/gdm/core and it's Xorg that's 
>> crashing.
>>
>> Running /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg succeeds, while /usr/X11/bin/amd64/Xorg 
>> and /usr/X11/bin/Xorg dumps core. Also binaries are very small compared 
>> to i386.
>>
>> I resolved the problem by linking the /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg to the 
>> /usr/X11/bin/Xorg.
>>
>> Is it really just me with  this problem?
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Lubos.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jan Friedel wrote:
>>     
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Lubomir Petrik wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I tried to update to snv_94, but gnome is not starting. gdm log file shows:
>>>> Executing start method /usr/sbin/gdm
>>>> Method start exited with status 0
>>>> Stopping because process dumped core.
>>>> ...
>>>> Restarting too quickly ...
>>>>
>>>> Now, where do I find the core file? There's none in the /.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>     coreadm(1) - generally. 
>>>
>>>     Otherwise if find(1) won't help you, try to run the
>>>     /usr/sbin/gdm by hand and the core will/should_be generated once
>>>     again.
>>>
>>>     /j.
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