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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:11 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade
Message-ID:  <1233202572.1779.14.camel@wombat.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <0F75C9C4-6BB3-4A48-9A4B-EA8FAFE272BD@airwired.net>
References:  <0F75C9C4-6BB3-4A48-9A4B-EA8FAFE272BD@airwired.net>

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On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 21:11 -0700, Dan Allen wrote:
> Although the hald_enable in /etc/rc.conf worked, I noticed that a lot  
> of other demons get running.  I needed to add dbus_enable as well.   
> That fix is too intrusive in my book.
> 
> In any event Firefox is now broken and does not run at all.
> 
> I backed out the /etc/rc.conf changes and generated an xorg.conf by  
> calling Xorg -configure.  I moved this to /etc/xorg.conf.  Things were  
> still broken until I added the recommended
> 
> 	Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> 
> in the ServerLayout section of xorg.conf.
> 
> Now I can use X again BUT... Firefox 3.0.5 is still broken.  It has  
> worked fine until this new Xorg.

Firefox not working is one of the symptoms of a botched upgrade.  If you
ldd firefox-bin you will likely find that it is linked to both
libxcb.so.1 and libxcb.so.2.  This is not good, ensure that everything
that depends on libxcb has been rebuilt.

robert.

> This 7.4 version of X.org is not ready for STABLE!
> 
> Dan
> 
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