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"Aaron Peterson" <aaron@alpete.com> wrote:
> > Why in the world are you going around recompiling ports and changing
> > dotfiles to find a lock-up?  Either X is having problems, or the kernel is
> > having problems.  Go to the _CONSOLE_ and execute the programs that are
> > "causing" the "lock-up" and you will stand a chance at actually finding
> > and
> > fixing whatever is going wrong.
> >
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1
> > <login>
> > DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox
> >
> > (or whatever)
> 
> because i don't know what else to do, and don't know what is causing the
> problem, obviously.  thanks for the kind advice.  i will try it.

Sorry for the tone I used; I'm not accusing you of anything.  It's just not 
going to be helpful to anyone else (who can't repeat it themselves just by 
starting the applications, as you describe, because i just doesn't happen).  
Were you able to get a backtrace now?

-- 
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