From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 05:27:22 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 DCD4E106566C for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:27:22 +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 A558B8FC17 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:27:22 +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 3926C5C2F32E for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:28:44 +1100 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <73B48621-7F1F-443F-B811-0135B6FE64E3@earthlink.net> References: <73B48621-7F1F-443F-B811-0135B6FE64E3@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:26:59 +1000 Message-Id: <1233206819.1216.16.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: 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 05:27:23 -0000 On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:45 -0800, 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 Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I 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? Did you read UPDATING?