From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 00:14:45 2009 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 3116A106566B for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE70C8FC13 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:14:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF78C5C2E61F for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:16:03 +1100 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20090128212906.35F33A6B41@maxine.cjones.org> References: <20090128212906.35F33A6B41@maxine.cjones.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:14:08 +1000 Message-Id: <1233188048.1216.9.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: issues with X not loading 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: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:14:45 -0000 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.