From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 16 17:54:21 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF2A7BB for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:54:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A455111B for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:54:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UoH9X-00081q-6f for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:54:11 +0200 Received: from cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.21.186.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:54:11 +0200 Received: from walterhurry by cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:54:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Walter Hurry Subject: Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 68 Message-ID: References: <201306161027.r5GARal3048520@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:54:21 -0000 On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:27:36 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From: Walter Hurry > Subject: Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 > 20:50:59 +0000 (UTC) > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:33:48 -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Walter Hurry > > wrote: > > > >> I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (r251572) amd64 in a VirtualBox VM. > >> > >> > > Recently, I started mentoring a Google Summer of Code student for > > the > > FreeBSD project. > > I worked with the student to set up a VM to run FreeBSD, with full > > graphical desktop. > > > > You might want to follow the instructions that the student followed > > here: > > > > http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rodrigc/2013/05/24/setting-up-a-vm- for- > doing-gsoc-work/ > > > > Only interesting details: > > (1) Student used VMWare player instead of VirtualBox (shouldn't > > be a > > big deal). > > (2) We used pkgng to install binary packages (3) We used one of > > the pkgng mirrors, since pkgng packages from > > FreeBSD.org aren't fully available yet > > > > Other than that, things worked fine, and the student was able to get > > a full FreeBSD with graphical desktop inside a VM. > > Thanks for the pointer to the blog. > > With hindsight, it seems that your student avoided the issue I ran into > by installing precompiled binaries, whereas I was using the Ports > collection. > > The problem was the Clang miscompilation of xorg-server, as pointed out > so kindly by Jung-uk Kim. > > Have you, or anybody else, sent a PR on this? I haven't. I don't know whether anyone else has. > I used xorg-server with clang until recently. > Now I'm on r249781. I think the problem started after the perl updates, > but I might be wrong. > Anyway, if nobody filed a PR yet, I'll do it. Thanks.