Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:14:08 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: issues with X not loading Message-ID: <1233188048.1216.9.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20090128212906.35F33A6B41@maxine.cjones.org> References: <20090128212906.35F33A6B41@maxine.cjones.org>
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On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 14:29 -0700, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > 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? Check the libxcb thread on this list. Try running portupgrade -a -rf libxcb and wait patiently- it worked for me. Meanwhile, leave rgbpath uncommented if you have X ttys enabled or it'll annoy the shit out of you- comment it out as soon as portupgrade finishes and you'll have beloved X back :) If mouse doesn't work at this point you'll have to make sure dbus and hald are enabled under rc.conf and reboot.
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