xzgfreeman1984@sina.com wrote:
> the XDM command of minix3 doesn't work when finish the installation of
> package ,
> I don't know why the situation happened,
> can you give me a answer?

You probably need to use chmem to change the memory of Xorg. You can
see it if you run Xorg directly that it runs out of memory. See here
for my take on the issue:

http://www.minixtips.com/2006/06/han...ry-issues.html

Something as simple as the following may work (as root):

chmem =120000000 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg

But it depends on how much memory you have on your Minix machine of
course. The above works for me with 256MB of main memory.

Chris.
--
http://www.minixtips.com

I'm also having the same problem; xdm, X, Xorg all will not run. I
tried your method of chmeming the binary, but it gives me an error,
"Xorg: not enough core", and I also have 256 MB of main memory!

I looked at another thread and found that this could be to do with the
video card, any suggestions?


Chris Double wrote:
> xzgfreeman1984@sina.com wrote:
> > the XDM command of minix3 doesn't work when finish the installation of
> > package ,
> > I don't know why the situation happened,
> > can you give me a answer?
>
> You probably need to use chmem to change the memory of Xorg. You can
> see it if you run Xorg directly that it runs out of memory. See here
> for my take on the issue:
>
> http://www.minixtips.com/2006/06/han...ry-issues.html
>
> Something as simple as the following may work (as root):
>
> chmem =120000000 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
>
> But it depends on how much memory you have on your Minix machine of
> course. The above works for me with 256MB of main memory.
>
> Chris.
> --
> http://www.minixtips.com

thasadams wrote:
> I'm also having the same problem; xdm, X, Xorg all will not run. I
> tried your method of chmeming the binary, but it gives me an error,
> "Xorg: not enough core", and I also have 256 MB of main memory!

How much memory did you assign to it using 'chmem'? Try adjusting it up
or down in 25MB increments and see what happens each time would be a
possibility.

Chris.
--
http://www.minixtips.com

Yep, just as I posted this, I clicked your website again, and it was
up. (it was down yesterday). I eventually just booted MINIX in simple
mode and ran the command, and it was fine. Good website.


Chris Double wrote:
> thasadams wrote:
> > I'm also having the same problem; xdm, X, Xorg all will not run. I
> > tried your method of chmeming the binary, but it gives me an error,
> > "Xorg: not enough core", and I also have 256 MB of main memory!
>
> How much memory did you assign to it using 'chmem'? Try adjusting it up
> or down in 25MB increments and see what happens each time would be a
> possibility.
>
> Chris.
> --
> http://www.minixtips.com

thasadams wrote:
> Yep, just as I posted this, I clicked your website again, and it was
> up. (it was down yesterday). I eventually just booted MINIX in simple
> mode and ran the command, and it was fine. Good website.

Thanks! Yeah, it was down yesterday thanks to a powercut. I've moved it
to a dedicated server so it'll be much more likely to stay up now. As
long as Minix is stable of course, which it certainly seems to be so
far.

It's disturbing to see how many hack attempts are made on internet
facing servers though. The ftpd.log file shows a request being made by
the same IP address every second using the userid Administrator and
password Administrator. over a period of about an hour. Weird!

Chris.
--
http://www.minixtips.com

That is odd indeed; you'd think that the program the hacker wrote would
stop after one attempt...unless it was going through a group of IP
addresses...


Chris Double wrote:
> thasadams wrote:
> > Yep, just as I posted this, I clicked your website again, and it was
> > up. (it was down yesterday). I eventually just booted MINIX in simple
> > mode and ran the command, and it was fine. Good website.
>
> Thanks! Yeah, it was down yesterday thanks to a powercut. I've moved it
> to a dedicated server so it'll be much more likely to stay up now. As
> long as Minix is stable of course, which it certainly seems to be so
> far.
>
> It's disturbing to see how many hack attempts are made on internet
> facing servers though. The ftpd.log file shows a request being made by
> the same IP address every second using the userid Administrator and
> password Administrator. over a period of about an hour. Weird!
>
> Chris.
> --
> http://www.minixtips.com

"thasadams" writes:

> That is odd indeed; you'd think that the program the hacker wrote would
> stop after one attempt...unless it was going through a group of IP
> addresses...
>
>
> Chris Double wrote:
> > thasadams wrote:
> > > Yep, just as I posted this, I clicked your website again, and it was
> > > up. (it was down yesterday). I eventually just booted MINIX in simple
> > > mode and ran the command, and it was fine. Good website.
> >
> > Thanks! Yeah, it was down yesterday thanks to a powercut. I've moved it
> > to a dedicated server so it'll be much more likely to stay up now. As
> > long as Minix is stable of course, which it certainly seems to be so
> > far.
> >
> > It's disturbing to see how many hack attempts are made on internet
> > facing servers though. The ftpd.log file shows a request being made by
> > the same IP address every second using the userid Administrator and
> > password Administrator. over a period of about an hour. Weird!

I imagine that this might be a worm which is stupid and just probes
random addresses w/o keeping a record of already probed
addresses. Another possibility is an automated tool which is used by
some cracker (not hacker! :-) which is incomptent enough not to know
that repeated probing (i.e. in a program loop) doesn't make sense in
this case.

But I agree with CD, that what you can see in the logs these days is
rather disturbing. I've been looking in my sshd-log(s) recently and
what I saw would have been enough to cry murder some years ago. Today
I know that it's useless: This attempts cannot be persecuted,
originate from a zombied PC anyway and of course the dial in provider
of the zombie box cannot be made to cooperate. I've recently spent 4
weeks only to try to reach a person with some amount of responsibility
in a case where a dial in PC put out ~ 50 to 100 virus mails per day
to one of my addresses alone. The providers position at the end was:
"we can't do anything" (if the customers PC misbehaves) which I
consider rather irresponible.

(Sorry for that being OT).

Regards -- Markus

Originally Posted by javavall

I have the same problem, but i dont receive any error my screen just goes into stand-by

I found whats wrong. i had to configure X and place the configuration file in /etc/X11/

That's weird. I had to put mine in /usr/pkg/X11R6/lib/X11/.