Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:05:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Gnome at FreeBSD List <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DISPLAY troubles... Message-ID: <20070618060534.GA25579@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20070618045633.GA24906@thought.org> References: <20070618043932.GA24771@thought.org> <46760E07.8010208@freebsd.org> <20070618045633.GA24906@thought.org>
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:56:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:45:59AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > This is a strange one. Last time I ran my broswer it worked. > > > Also, I *finally* had Gnome auto-booting. Just now, terminal > > > fails to come up ; likewise with firefox. I rebooted twice but > > > don't see anything unusual. > > > > > > I'm rerunning portupgrade -a for the umpteent time. If anybody > > > knows why the DISPLAY fails, I'd like a clue. "env" shows the > > > display as ":0.0", but nothing works..... > > > > You can try ktracing the simplest non-working X application from the > > command line. See if anything obvious shows up. > > > > > I can even get X working. Not kdm, not gdm, not even xdm. > I'll check the /tmp/.X11* file.... > > gary > > PS: I'm upgrading ports right this sec, but ought to be ble to > go in thru F3 or the like. > > FWIW: lots more of things likee theses in /var/log/debug.log: Jun 5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, endgrent, not found But in /etc/make.conf is NO_NIS=YES; so I don't no where the nis yelps are coming from.... any ideas?? Also, lot of -aP packages cming over via portupgrade. Also I /usr is X11R6 -> /usr/local/ It's gone from working to (!working) and back. And back... . HM. this is interesting, aabout kdm-bin in messages and gdm also: Jun 17 21:45:27 tao2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Jun 17 21:45:53 tao2 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6 Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 root: /etc/rc: WARNING: /etc/ntp.conf is not readable. Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol not supported Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: optional socket disabled Jun 17 21:46:11 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. Jun 17 21:58:30 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2 Jun 17 22:02:28 tao2 gdm[22133]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. Any X11/GUI type wizards know what this means? This is exactly what happened when I trried to lanuch GGUI stuff: couldn't deal with the display. I'm stumped. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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