From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Apr 6 21:42:57 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580DAB067E6 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 21:42:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DF8510E6 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 21:42:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1anvDr-00015k-Es for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 23:42:48 +0200 Received: from 65.75.36.70 ([65.75.36.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 23:42:47 +0200 Received: from gyliamos by 65.75.36.70 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 23:42:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Will Parsons Subject: Re: Recovering from X "upgrade" disaster - now what? Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 21:42:40 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: gyliamos@gmail.com X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.75.36.70 User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (FreeBSD) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 01:11:57 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:42:57 -0000 On Thursday, 31 Mar 2016 1:20 AM -0400, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Will Parsons wrote: > >> The hardware in question (Lenovo Edge E520) doesn't appear to be >> particularly unusual (and was in fact working perfectly well previous >> to my attempt to "upgrade"). >> >> Is there anyone who can give me hope of recovering this system? >> (I *really* don't want to trash it and reinstall. And even if I did, >> would there be any reason to think it would work?) >> >> I'm desparate for a solution. > > Sorry about the late reply, I was hoping someone who had the same > machine might respond. > > The only thing I can suggest to try is adding > xrandr --auto > > to .xinitrc just before it runs the window manager. Otherwise, please > ask on the freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org mailing list. I'm sure it can work, > just don't know why it is not working now. Thank you for the suggestions, even if they failed to solve the problem. Happily, I have now got X working again, but to do so I had to restore the entire contents of /usr/local from a backup I had made about 6 months ago. I think what this means is that my pkg database is out of sync with the actual contents of /usr/local. What does this mean as far as further updating? I'd just as soon try to resolve the real problem, but am understandably reluctant to leave my system crippled again. -- Will