From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 06:51:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E92616A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 06:51:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from qsmtp5.america.net (qsmtp5.america.net [69.60.160.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B93543D2D for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 06:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trey@fastmail.fm) Received: from [65.82.45.189] (helo=fastmail.fm) by qsmtp5.america.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1AcQe0-0006FV-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:51:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF586B7.4070100@fastmail.fm> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:56:55 -0500 From: Trey Sizemore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200401021231.32584.jarek@eko.net.pl> <3FF57BAB.1020804@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <3FF57BAB.1020804@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:51:22 -0000 Trey Sizemore wrote: > Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: > >> OS: FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 (MAC - biba,mls) >> >> Hi, >> >> I have problem with X on 5.2-RC2. Sometimes the whole >> system hangs when I start X by startx or 'setpmac mls/equal startx' >> (with MAC policies loaded). In about 30% of attempts it hangs on >> XFree startup messages and hard reset is required. >> The problem occurs a little bit too often for some unrelated >> accident and it doesn't occur at all on 5.1-RELEASE (the same >> hardware and configuration). >> >> Does anyone have similar problem ? >> >> Regards, >> Jarek >> >> >> > Yes, see my post from earlier today called "Can't shutdown, logout, or > restart cleanly." I have not run 5.1-RELEASE before, so I can't say > if it didn't happen there, but it definitely happens with > 5.2-CURRENT. I'm at my wit's end trying to find out why! > Per a post I received on bsdforums.com, try booting up with ACPI turned off. This can be done in 5.1 and later by choosing option 2 in the boot menu (Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled). Once I did this, it worked like a champ. I'm not sure why earlier versions may not have been affected by this or if it only affects certain hardware. Let me know if this worked for you.