Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:29:06 -0700 (MST) From: Keith Seyffarth <weif@weif.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: issues with X not loading Message-ID: <20090128212906.35F33A6B41@maxine.cjones.org>
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On freebsd 6.0, I started having issues with X on Friday, and by
Sunday, clicking buttons on the XFCE toolbar or choosing menu items
from the XFCE menu weren't working. Subsequent to this, X would just
hang when I run startx.
I think what may have started this was trying to portupgrade gnucash,
because it looks like some port items that were dependencies for other
things (xorg-protos, for example) have been removed from the ports
system.
so, I tried portupgrade for xfce4, which tells me everything is
current. Then I tried portupgrade xorg, which did upgrade a lot of
things.
This got me to a point where I can run startx, and rather than
hanging, it, um, crashes gracefully. I receive this error:
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Parse error on line 75 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
"RgbPath" is not a valid keyword in this section.
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file
Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
I can comment out line 75 referred to above, but that seems to put me
back to where I was before trying to upgrade: startx hangs the
computer...
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Keith S.
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