groff and X11 broken (before gcc3.2)

2002-09-02 Thread Christian Weisgerber 

I just finished updating my alpha box to shortly before the gcc3.2
import and now I'm seeing some weird breakage:

$ man ls
out of memory

It's actually nroff (groff) that aborts.
Also:

$ startx
[...]
xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

(Hmm, actually that may be due to the XFree86-Server-4.2.0_5 to _6
update.  I think I haven't restarted the X11 server since.)

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Re: groff and X11 broken (before gcc3.2)

2002-09-02 Thread Eric Anholt 

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 05:35, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
 I just finished updating my alpha box to shortly before the gcc3.2
 import and now I'm seeing some weird breakage:

 $ startx
 [...]
 xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
 xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
 
 (Hmm, actually that may be due to the XFree86-Server-4.2.0_5 to _6
 update.  I think I haven't restarted the X11 server since.)

You need to either reinstall Xwrapper port, or setuid root your XFree86
and accept the possible security holes.

I wish we could accept having some sort of suid Xwrapper installed with
XFree86-4-Server, but that would probably be shot down for security
concerns by those who don't use startx.

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Re: groff and X11 broken (before gcc3.2)

2002-09-02 Thread Christian Weisgerber 

Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  $ startx
  [...]
  xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
  xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Of course those xinit errors are useless; I should have looked at
XFree86.0.log.

 You need to either reinstall Xwrapper port, or setuid root your XFree86
 and accept the possible security holes.

*Smacks forehead*
I know that.  I really do.  I guess I wasn't quite awake yet this
morning.

 I wish we could accept having some sort of suid Xwrapper installed with
 XFree86-4-Server, but that would probably be shot down for security
 concerns by those who don't use startx.

I only use startx because xdm is chronically broken on alpha (at
least the way I use it).

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Re: groff and X11 broken (before gcc3.2)

2002-09-02 Thread Christian Weisgerber 

Christian Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It's actually nroff (groff) that aborts.

Even a simple groff --version or groff --help will produce the
out of memory error.

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