From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 03:13:34 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 EACCE1065785 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B679D8FC27 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so7396018rvf.43 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:13:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NN8bSJEdAsa9zJcG1zIOV2aes1jXLzxiBFD0iPZcgpA=; b=UeOfdQ3NR49kUZHSgCiAMsahIVDY/WTHXZDqwoZx7GWeI0PPvLa8URckIJoE9L7CVg 2+Dbye25d0VVIKQt0IHx7R4XYDitJr00SgmKWNXBOW5I1tPsU796PRS1OiqPHjsw1rJU 7eSdskKJ9E3LQgQtCKPeU/4PzMvARIRWNu8zc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=p0X0vCp8bw4M3RX2vXCCUm4FNqeHtSDE8jHACDox+X5XSvRqD1J3T3GHAdhSdgb/Al UARqtDPBwX03r7eVS2ztHjQe4fpSMP2HaTluM7z7SllHWXSFuK6V7kKvPdzHa81NHL8Y Y0Im3BS4ijuJIObGvYjRfP04POzXkBQTO2hB8= Received: by 10.142.207.8 with SMTP id e8mr142089wfg.78.1233198814127; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:13:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from aargh.lan (ool-182fcc8b.dyn.optonline.net [24.47.204.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm2227998wfg.48.2009.01.28.19.13.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:13:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49811ED8.4060004@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:13:28 -0500 From: Eitan Adler User-Agent: Mozilla (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; ) Gecko Thunderbird Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arthur Barlow References: <73B48621-7F1F-443F-B811-0135B6FE64E3@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <73B48621-7F1F-443F-B811-0135B6FE64E3@earthlink.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=E9C2CCD1; url=pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Xorg update 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 03:13:35 -0000 Arthur Barlow wrote: > Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I > noticed that many xf86 and various xorg drivers were. Because the > number was significant I used the "portupgrade -a" command to make sure > all the dependencies were processed properly. As it turned out, there > were still a couple of places were the process broke and I needed to do > a "deinstall" and "reinstall" on a certain package(s) before I could > continue. When the process was done I tried to run "startx", but I got > an error. I ran just X without startx or xinit and I get the message: > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11: Server aborting > > Abort trap: 6 > > I've tried to reinstall xorg, xorg-drivers, and a handful of other > drivers, but no luck. I'm using FreeBSD 6.4, and the upgrade was for > xorg-7.4. Any suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > What video driver are you using? Could you give us output of any logs and config files? -- Eitan Adler "Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave." -Jakob Nielsen