From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 00:38:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494B210656A2 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:38:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hermante@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080B28FC17 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:38:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hermante@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so132646yxb.13 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:38:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=lAACec/1gDOdQB/QSAcsrpgK/gSWM+MjEzAkjAhSmK0=; b=Cmaag7vcR6GaHfR5JJ5D7Ch/3FPotHdLb3ni0FjlTGamE+1loSGDHOP9gtuuhmCK/s S1MqU8jrtJlaYAFfn/vN8IQZnc8cr8qQB5KCITz9aAz6hlaPwwbVHJ04zSfqfz2cEVW2 b8GT5AgeqyYZSkg5irFdwLaA7Eg3qvt5SG5Kw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=IK1WTBUpeLDq1R1JZaIZiCiObvYjNzG5WvrKW/Dkt4it/sgU2ufgZbKqh7lNykf40R amXw7HycJWf7nCko9K2puxoD0dnibedXzfOSRqEeqKE6Ub1FWlr5bm4ADI9W6Gx6rXyO K4AOJNcHV/iRIXYrqxLZBk/le2t7u/rK7VWhg= Received: by 10.101.67.15 with SMTP id u15mr460903ank.136.1222387785697; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.232.16 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <68efd1c70809251709r69e541d5nc321b9b554fdef1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:09:45 +0100 From: "Herman Te" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: X server crashes on exit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:38:12 -0000 Hi, I installed 7.0 from the CD with X. Now this is the first time I ever used FreeBSD or X, I know a bit from linux but I usually use command line only. So when the system finished installing I logged in and typed startx. First time it took over 2 mins (is this normal) but eventually worked, and loaded 3 green terminals and a small clock in the corner. I don't know what this is and the mouse was not working so I tried to exit with the ctrl+alt+backspace but screen went black and the entire system hung - I know this as my remote session aborted and the keyboard led stopped responding too - still no response after 30 mins. I realise that i need a window manager so I tried to install gnome from CD. However it is the same problem and the system hung when I tried to quit back to command line mode. After hours on google I found how to fix the mouse and decide to try building fluxbox wm from the ports. Before starting the X, I ran Xorg -configure and echo exec startfluxbox > .xinitrc. So now it starts up properly and works well but still I cannot exit the X. This is a big problem because the machine has no case so I must bend down and touch the reset pins with a penknife :P Also as the disks are not unmounted there are errors and one of the times my user account was deleted, so I had to reinstall the whole system. As I said I have never configure or install an X windows system before, and I was googling for ages. Could anyone give me some idea of how to diagnose and fix this problem? Thanks Herman