From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 23:19:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB32837B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717E343E77 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:19:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA24439; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:19:29 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBF87FF.70503@owt.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:19:27 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Paul A. Scott" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 Fails with signal 11 in FreeBSD 4.6 and 4.7 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul A. Scott wrote: > XFree86 exits on signal 11 immediately after starting on FreeBSD 4.6 and > 4.7. It is not possible to run the graphical configuration utility at all. > After running curses configuration utility, running startx produces signal > 11. No other debugging information is available. No other messages from the > server. > > Note that X runs fine on FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, using the exact same > machine and configuration. > > When XFree86 moved to a combined server (beginning in FreeBSD 4.6), > something broke. Earlier versions (on FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier) using > individual X server modules worked fine. Did you upgrade from 3.3.6 to 4.x, which is the default from 4.6 on. If you did, you have to rename or rm the 3.3.6 version of /etc/XF86Config. > > Can anyone help me debug and resolve this problem? I've tried everything I > can think of to no avail. > > Thanks, > > Paul A. Scott > mailto:pscott@skycoast.us > http://skycoast.us/pscott/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message