Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:37:55 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0901301732080.21958@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <49837CFD.4080603@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <49837CFD.4080603@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: > After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4 > and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now > firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this > error message: > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Then firefox3 freezes forever, showing something like the background or > pixel remnants of windows/picograms moving over its window. > > I recompiled three times libxcb and its dependencies, two times > Xlib/Xserver/xf86-input-* to be sure having compiled everything and then > I recompiled everything again what's necessary to build Firefox3. No > effect. I now recompile everything needed to build Xlib to get rid of > the above shown error message because I suspect this causing my firefox3 > not working. > > On another box, also amd64, but FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE (SMP) I had to do the > same procedure and firefox3 is working properly. Bot boxes do have ATI > graphics (driver radeon). > > I also tried deleting my personal .mozille directory and started firefox > from scratch. But after some download-save-requester opened (when trying > to download a file from a location in the web) firefox freezes also > eating up 100% cpu. In all cases Firefox3 can be killed. > > Any help is appreciated. Perhaps it's a little overkill, but what I usually do when I perform upgrades like this, is to move /usr/local out of the way (along with /var/db/pkg), and remove any X/KDE/QT stuff in /tmp, /var/.., etc. Then I install (portupdate -NR) everything from scratch. If something goes wrong, I just have to move the original /usr/local back until I work out the problems. -- DE
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