Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:21:03 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg upgrade and /etc/ttys regression Message-ID: <1233102063.1202.51.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20090127190217.de1802b5.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <20090127190217.de1802b5.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:02 +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've used to start my login manager with /etc/ttys for years now (After I > considered myself became to lazy to type startx). > > After yesterdays xorg upgrade I've noticed, that the login manager which > comes up right after going to multiuser has no working mouse or keyboard > support. This is probably because the login manager gets started by > /sbin/init which uses getttyent which parses /etc/ttys. This all happens > before hald is being started which is the problem here. > > So the solution seems to be to drop/remove login manager startups > from /etc/ttys and move over to rc.d startup. > > This might be an information which others (people also using /etc/ttys) > might find usefull so I'm sharing it... > > > When upgrading to latest xorg - make sure you are retiring your /etc/ttys > upgrade > > > (Or am I the only one experiencing this? Maybe my system is just to slow > to start hald fast enough? ;) > I had a similar problem: I rebooted after a failed portupgrade -a and lost X. I then found out I needed to comment out RGBPath (which kinda fixed the X crashing) but XDM still wasn't working because update wasn't finished. So I uncommented the RGBPath, completed my update, and then commented RGBPath again (stopped X annoying me by popping up every so often due to ttys). XDM came up, but mouse wasn't working so I rebooted and it was fine again. I didn't need to change my method at all. Question is: which X are you running? 7.4? Might be hald is not started high enough on the list in rc.conf?
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