Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:15:44 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Cc: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X server stops working after recent 5.0-RELEASE -> 5.0-CURRENT upgrade Message-ID: <20030226140739.F91528@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10302261326560.21441-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10302261326560.21441-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Paul Mather wrote: > > Yesterday evening I upgraded a Gateway 450 laptop from 5.0-RELEASE-p3 > > to 5.0-CURRENT. Unfortunately, as a byproduct of that upgrade, > > I can no longer start X. Instead, it now aborts with Signal 10. :-( > > [...] > > > Has anyone else experienced problems with X ceasing to work after a > > 5.0-RELEASE -> 5.0-CURRENT upgrade?? I did not change X at all during > > the upgrade. All I did was rebuilt world and kernel, as per > > /usr/src/UPDATING. After discovering X no longer worked, I rebuilt my > > X server and X libraries ports via portupgrade -f, but still have the > > same problem. > > I posted the same exact problem on this list last week (see "What > broke X between 5.0R and recent current?" as subject line). > > I got two suggestions. One was to upgrade to the latest > version of XFree86, and the other was to add an explicit > mode line for the screen size to your XF86Config file. > Unfortunately, I didn't get the latter suggestion until > I had went through the pain and effort of getting the > latest version of XFree86 (right from the CVS repo, the > last 4.3 release candidate did _not_ work) and rebuilding > it and KDE. > > The good news is that it works with XFree86 from their CVS > repo. I didn't use a port to build it, I just cvsup'd > their tree and did a 'make World' and it just worked. First off, I have no idea what might have caused X to break on your systems. I guess I'm lucky to have not run into such problems... Would you mind doing a binary search (using date tags) to determine which commit caused the breakage between 5.0-R and the date when you first started having problems? Once it has been identified, a fix can be cooked up. Regards, > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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