It looks there is some trouble with the gpm daemon. See if it is running and try killing it to see whether it makes any difference. George
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Sindelfingen Office wrote: ~ > Hi there. > > during the weekend i upgraded my system from 1.3.1-XYZ to hamm (using the > frozen- tree on ftp.debian) with the aid of the autoup script. > Surprisingly everything went fine with no bigger problems. But when i > tried to start the menuconfig programm to compile a new kernel it failed > with the error message below : > > Script started on Mon Jun 8 09:37:01 1998 > asterix# cd /usr/src/ln inux > asterix# mkae ake menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>" > -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > asterix# exit > exit > > Script done on Mon Jun 8 09:37:19 1998 > > An older message on this list stated that i need > ncurses3.0-altdev_1.9.9e-2.1.deb from the oldlibs section. Ok, i > installed it > but menuconfig is still failing. I saw that the curses.h header file is > under /usr/include/i486-libc1. How can i tell the system where to find > the old ncurses header files ? > > The other problem is that i cannot login with xdm any more. Neither as > root nor as a normal user. I updated the following x11 packages : > > xaw3dg_1.3-6.2.deb > xext_3.3.2.1-1.deb > xfnt100_3.3.2.1-1.deb > xfnt75_3.3.2.1-1.deb > xfntbase_3.3.2.1-1.deb > xfntpex_3.3.2-4.deb > xfntscl_3.3.2-4.deb > xlib6g_3.3.2.1-1.deb > xpm4g_3.4j-0.6.deb > xserver-s3_3.3.2.1-1.deb > xserver-vga16_3.3.2.1-1.deb > xviewg_3.2p1.4-3.deb > > After the login the X server immediately shuts down and xdm comes up > again. Could it be that there's a problem with the > authentication procedure ? I think i saw a program xauth running with > the parameters A:0 -a ..something - shoulnd't it be 0:0 ? > > Can anybody point me to some documents describing the procedure how the X > window server is started ? (especially with Debian) > > XFree86 Version 3.3.2 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) > Release Date: March 2 1998 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer > than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting > problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) > Operating System: Linux 2.0.32 i686 [ELF] > Configured drivers: > S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) > newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic > (using VT number 7) > > XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config > (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values > (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(de)" (overrides other XKB settings) > (**) Mouse: type: MouseSystems, device: /dev/gpmdata, baudrate: 1200 > (**) Mouse: buttons: 3, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) > (**) S3: Graphics device ID: "Elsa 1000Trio 64/V+" > (**) S3: Monitor ID: "Sony 15 Zoll Multiscan" > . > . > . > (--) S3: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. > (**) FontPath set to > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R > 6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" > (--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 40, Linear FB @ 0xf4000000 > (--) S3: chipset: Trio64V+ rev. 41 > (--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio > (--) S3: card type: PCI > (--) S3: videoram: 2048k > WARNING: Did not detect a ramdac of type "s3_gendac" as specified! > (**) S3: Ramdac type: s3gendac > (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 110 MHz > (**) S3: Using S3 Gendac/SDAC programmable clock (MCLK 4.990 MHz) > (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 110.000 MHz > . > . > . > (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (1216,1025) for expanding pixmaps > (--) S3: Using 8 planes of 1216x613 at (0,1025) aligned 8 as font cache > System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > -xkm -m de -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp > "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" > keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm' > Warning: /dev/gpmdata unable to get status of mouse fd (Invalid > argument) > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Please send your response NOT to the original senders email address. Send > it to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as i cannot use the Netscape email client at > the moment. > > bye, Stefan Frank > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
