Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:34:39 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Selected X11 Apps Suddenly Stopped Working Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901301130210.22125@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <49833335.9080908@tundraware.com> References: <49828E57.7080709@tundraware.com> <18818.50226.579282.929228@gromit.timing.com> <49833335.9080908@tundraware.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > John Hein wrote: >> Tim Daneliuk wrote at 23:21 -0600 on Jan 29, 2009: >> > In the past week or so, I've ripped xfce4 out of a server and replaced >> > it with blackbox. I also did some portupgrades ... and then the fun >> > began. Certain X apps - GNU emacs and wireshark notably - no longer >> > work. In both cases, I start the program from an xterm, and the >> > screen just sits there. This is true whether I install from ports >> > or the most recent packages tree. emacs will start with the -nw >> > option. >> > >> > I went back and ripped all of X out of the system, and reinstalled >> > it from the metaport in the current packages tree. This did not >> > help - same problem. >> > >> > This is a FBSD6.4-STABLE system as of 1-19-2009 running on an Intel >> > mobo with a 3GHz Pentium-D. >> > >> > Ideas as to what's going on or how to debug this would be appreciated. >> > I'm guessing it's some library incompatibility/missing but I haven't >> > a clue where to being looking ... >> >> ktrace should tell you where the app is getting stuck. pkg_libchk from bsdadminscripts might be work a look also. > It seems that last night's port updates fixed the problem .. sort > of. emacs et al do startup OK now, but I am seeing this > message when they do: > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display Here too, but it doesn't sound serious: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-October/039131.html -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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