Branden wrote: > If it's the same kernel bug I've seen on ia64 and heard about on ARM, > xdm is in a select().
> Please do discuss this on this list. xdm doesn't even work for remote X > servers at present (or, at least, the last time I looked at this). Thanks for the pointer. Yes this might be the same problem. Xdm crashes on mips before the X-server gets forked but not in select AFAIR. I'll have another look at the strace output when I'm close to a mips machine again. -- Guido