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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:10:11 -0500
From: "J. Altman" <freebsd@chthonixia.net>
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Subject: Re: X fails to start; may be due to recent ports updates...?
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Correction: WRT the root account, X will start and so do both my
windowmanagers; XFCE and Windowmaker.

This is a change from Saturday, February 11 to Sunday, February 12. My
user account still fails to load a windowmanager.

Thanks,

Joe

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:15:55PM -0500, J. Altman wrote:
> Greetings, list....
> 
> 
> ===End error===
> 
> This is with my user account, employing windowmaker; with root, XFCE
> fails in a similar manner, and on one occasion dumped core. No core
> dumps with the user account. Other than this, I have no clue.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Joe