From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 10:51:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9F016A4CE for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3573943D39 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4LHonec005145 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i4LHomfI031739 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.11/Submit) id i4LHol9N031710 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:50:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:50:46 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20040521175046.GA557@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: relatively urgent question (about X) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:51:16 -0000 For some months I've had increasing troubles with my 4.9/4.10 abruptly crashing. This morning I found my workhorse server, tao, down and hung up while trying to fsck /usr. I cleaned everything thoroughly and then started xdm. The grey screen showed, the mouse was frozen; after 30 seconds, BOOM. Another crash. After yet another round of fsck's, I tried startx. To see what errs might kill the X11 boot. No: same blank grey screen, same frozen mouse,same OS crash. I tried /stand/sysinstall to reconfigure X. No luck. I'm now doing my next stable sup upgrade and am doing yet another buildworld && buildkernel. I doubt this will resolve the X Window snafu, tho. So::: what x11/*XFree* ports do I have to fetch/build/install?? ((I'm assuming the reason for the crash was X-related, but this is only a first-SWAG.) Also, if anybody has had a similar problem, please let me know. tia, people, gary, ssh'd in from ethic.thought.org -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix