Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 03:46:51 +0100 From: morten.gulbrandsen@t-online.de (Morten Gulbrandsen) To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: startx crashes FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <3C2A8B9B.D509315C@T-Online.DE>
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Hello, my problem is: startx gives fatal server error. ======================================================================= su-2.04# make install ===> 9term ===> XFree86 ===> XFree86-4 ===> XFree86-4-clients ===> XFree86-4-documents ===> XFree86-4-libraries ===> XFree86-4-manuals ===> Building for XFree86-manuals-4.0.1 making all in ./general... making all in ./X11... making all in ./Xt... making all in ./Xext... making all in Xext/dbe... making all in ./Xi... making all in ./Xau... making all in ./Xv... making all in ./GL... making all in GL/glx... rm -f glXChooseVisual.3.html glXChooseVisual.3-html rman -f HTML < glXChooseVisual.man > glXChooseVisual.3-html && mv -f glXChooseVisual.3-html glXChooseVisual.3.html macro "!" not recognized -- ignoring macro "macro" not recognized -- ignoring Segmentation fault - core dumped *** Error code 139 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-manuals/work/xc/doc/man/GL/glx. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-manuals/work/xc/doc/man/GL. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-manuals/work/xc/doc/man. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-manuals. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-manuals. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-manuals. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-manuals. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11. su-2.04# ========================================================================================= I tried again and got macro "!" not recognized -- ignoring macro "macro" not recognized -- ignoring Segmentation fault - core dumped appended, after re-boot bash-2.04$ startx& [1] 526 bash-2.04$ Fatal server error: Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. uname -a FreeBSD earth.. 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #7: Wed Dec 19 18:49:23 GMT 2001 morten@earth..:/usr/src/sys/compile/earth i386 I went into directory /usr/ports/x11 and typed make install. some strange questons came and I typed the default [yes] to all of them :-) Can someone please help me to solve this problem ? before I start to hack, you surely need some more information ? Right now, Im sitting on a debian Linux workstation. I can start freebsd, login as morten or root, but I can't start any xserver. This log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" was not present on my system. Yours Sincerely Morten Gulbrandsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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