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Date:      Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:51:58 -0700
From:      Robert <traveling08@cox.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Can't start X after update
Message-ID:  <20110326095158.1b770302@dell64>

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Hello FreeBSD 

I updated the below listed ports on one of my systems today using
portmaster. The system is running 9.0 Current updated yesterday.

[robert@9BSD64] ~> uname -a
FreeBSD 9BSD64.shasta204.local 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1: Fri
Mar 25 11:31:42 PDT 2011
root@9BSD64.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 

goffice-0.8.14
libgsf-1.14.20
libgsf-gnome-1.14.20
xf86-video-ati-6.14.1
gnumeric-1.10.14

After updating these ports, I am unable to start an XFCE4 session. I get a
blank blue screen with a mouse cursor and a blank white task bar. The
system is locked up. I cannot even ctl-alt-F2 or even ctl-alt-del. The
keyboard and mouse are unresponsive.

I can ssh into the system and then I really see some weird stuff. Top
does not even show that I have executed the "startx" command.

last pid:  2632;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.02  up 0+00:19:19  09:44:39
63 processes:  1 running, 62 sleeping
CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.4% interrupt, 99.6% idle
Mem: 28M Active, 33M Inact, 130M Wired, 92K Cache, 72M Buf, 3703M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND                                                 
 2445 haldaemon     2  20    0 40300K  9160K piperd  0   0:01  0.00% hald
 2451 root          1  37    0 19616K  2964K select  0   0:00  0.00% gam_server
 2471 root          1  20    0 19964K  2124K select  0   0:00  0.00% hald-addon-storage
 2474 root          1  20    0 19964K  2124K select  0   0:00  0.00% hald-addon-storage
 2452 root          1  52    0 24520K  3472K select  1   0:00  0.00% hald-runner
 2087 root          1  20    0 22448K  3208K select  0   0:00  0.00% ntpd
 2447 root         18  20    0 50824K  7432K waitvt  1   0:00  0.00% console-kit-daemon
 2449 root          2  20    0 41488K  6712K select  0   0:00  0.00% polkitd
 2588 root          1  21    0 68072K  5480K sbwait  1   0:00  0.00% sshd
 1987 root          1  52    0 10052K  1820K select  0   0:00  0.00% nfsd
 2459 root          1  20    0 19964K  2116K select  0   0:00  0.00% hald-addon-storage
 2604 robert        1  20    0 16616K  3160K pause   0   0:00  0.00% csh
 2504 robert        1  31    0 16616K  3200K ttyin   1   0:00  0.00% csh
 2603 robert        1  20    0 68072K  5516K select  1   0:00  0.00% sshd
 2458 root          1  52    0 24188K  3020K kqread  1   0:00  0.00% hald-addon-mouse-sy
 2279 root          1  20    0 20508K  4044K select  0   0:00  0.00% sendmail
 2433 root          1  20    0 41260K  2328K wait    1   0:00  0.00% login
 1844 root          1  20    0 12312K  1672K select  0   0:00  0.00% syslogd
 2168 messagebus    1  20    0 14444K  2480K select  0   0:00  0.00% dbus-daemon
 1985 root          1  20    0 12180K  2132K select  0   0:00  0.00% mountd
 1870 root          1  20    0 14264K  1792K select  1   0:00  0.00% rpcbind
 2014 root          1  38    0 24984K  3344K nanslp  0   0:00  0.00% smartd
 2340 root          1  52    0 14388K  1776K nanslp  1   0:00  0.00% cron
 2632 robert        1  20    0 16700K  2448K CPU1    1   0:00  0.00% top
 1988 root          4  20    0 10052K  1360K rpcsvc  1   0:00  0.00% nfsd
 2050 root          1  52    0 10196K  1668K select  1   0:00  0.00% lpd
 2440 root          1  52    0 12184K  1404K ttyin   1   0:00  0.00% getty
 2435 root          1  52    0 12184K  1404K ttyin   1   0:00  0.00% getty
 2436 root          1  52    0 12184K  1404K ttyin   1   0:00  0.00% getty
 2439 root          1  52    0 12184K  1404K ttyin   0   0:00  0.00% getty
 2434 root          1  52    0 12184K  1404K ttyin   0   0:00  0.00% getty
 2437 root          1  52    0 12184K  1404K ttyin   0   0:00  0.00% getty
 2438 root          1  52    0 12184K  1404K ttyin   1   0:00  0.00% getty
 2221 root          1  20    0 46932K  4716K select  1   0:00  0.00% sshd
 2144 root          1  20    0 14364K  1468K select  1   0:00  0.00% moused
 2333 smmsp         1  22    0 20508K  4136K pause   0   0:00  0.00% sendmail
 2377 root          1  32    0 11220K  1756K select  0   0:00  0.00% rsync
 1498 root          1  52    0 10052K  1664K select  0   0:00  0.00% dhclient
 1537 root          1  20    0  6276K   840K select  0   0:00  0.00% devd
 1536 _dhcp         1  20    0 10052K  1768K select  0   0:00  0.00% dhclient
 2549 robert        1  52    0 36208K  4056K select  1   0:00  0.00%
 ssh-agent

I normally do not run HAL but I enabled it in rc.conf to see if it made a difference. 
Obviously it did not. Using ps axw also show nothing X related as running. 

Anyone seeing this or have an idea of what to try?

TIA

Robert



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