Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:02:31 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, walterhurry@gmail.com Subject: Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current Message-ID: <201306162202.r5GM2VXx049963@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <kpku3h$qi1$1@ger.gmane.org>
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From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:53:53 +0000 (UTC) On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:27:36 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> > 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 <walterhurry@gmail.com> > > 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. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=179625 Perhaps you could follow it up with the details of your graphics card, Xorg log, etc. Anton
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