From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 00:21:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FA3106564A for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:21:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F2A8FC16 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:21:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.171] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913BF5C2F1EC for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:22:47 +1100 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20090127190217.de1802b5.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <20090127190217.de1802b5.lehmann@ans-netz.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:21:03 +1000 Message-Id: <1233102063.1202.51.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: xorg upgrade and /etc/ttys regression X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:21:26 -0000 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?