Re: Dead Machine & 2.1.131

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 05 Dec 1998 08:49:18 -0500

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981204162700.21578B-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>,
Rik
van Riel writes:
+-----
| On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Michael K Vance wrote:
| > And to keep following up on my own posts before I see any reponses
| > =), it was MOST certainly xfstt killing my machine. First it would
| > cause random X lockups after usage, then it would kill my machine
| > when xdm tried to startup my session. Removing the xfstt related
| > lines from .xsession/.xinitrc solved the problem totally.
|
| What exactly is xfstt and what is it doing to your machine?
+--->8

xfstt is an X font server for TrueType fonts. If it's feeding garbage and
the X server isn't sanity checking fonts it receives from a font server,
then it could conceivably result in an X server crash.

| OTOH, if xfstt runs as root and directly accesses I/O ports,
+--->8

It shouldn't need to run as root, it shouldn't be touching I/O ports at all.

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
			  Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.






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