From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 26 18:45:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DA837B405 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 18:45:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd10.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 16JQXm-0007dn-01; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 03:45:18 +0100 Received: from T-Online.DE (520042712742-0001@[80.133.148.233]) by fwd10.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16JQXd-1AwdNYC; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 03:45:09 +0100 Message-ID: <3C2A8B9B.D509315C@T-Online.DE> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 03:46:51 +0100 From: morten.gulbrandsen@t-online.de (Morten Gulbrandsen) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: startx crashes FreeBSD 4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520042712742-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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