From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 9 15:19:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C6137BEE9 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 15:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA83491; Tue, 9 May 2000 17:19:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 17:19:07 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: mlduke Subject: RE: One For the Books Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-May-00 mlduke wrote: > I'm running 3.2 which is my third version (I think, maybe four). > X has always worked. Never failed once after finally getting > through XF86Config. > > Today, it up and quit, refuses to start and nothing, repeat _nothing_ > has been changed by this sole user/admin since yesterday. I mean, it > was running when I shut it down (orderly like) and we went to bed. > > The error message starts by declaring itself "XFree86 Version > 3.3.3.1 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, Revision 0, vendor release 6300) > Release Date: December 29 1998" > > and ends with: > > "Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:2823 > > Read the section entitled 'ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL'.. > Example section name expected > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)" > > The "anti spam" section of /etc/XF86Config refers to files not > found on this machine. > > Any clues? How strange. It sounds like somehow your X config file got something else inserted into it from somewhere. As far as I know, there's no "anti-spam" section in XF86Config. It doesn't even make sense to have such a thing there. And that's an awfully large XF86Config file ya got there, buddy (2823+ lines?). :-) I'd imagine everything from that line on has no business being there. You should bring up your favorite editor and chop all that stuff out. If worse comes to worst, just rerun XF86Setup or xf86config, and make a fresh, clean config file. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message