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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
