Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:04:52 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't (re)start X, may be hal related Message-ID: <20110618130452.4dbe99b4@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <19963.63779.628334.773399@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <19963.63779.628334.773399@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:02:27 -0400 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > > I had reason to restart the X server on one of my machines this > morning ... only it didn't restart. > > System: > > FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Apr 18 11:59:37 EDT 2011 amd64 > > X: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 3 07:59 xorg-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 19 09:02 xorg-apps-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 07:56 xorg-cf-files-1.0.3 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 08:15 xorg-docs-1.4,1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 3 07:59 xorg-drivers-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 08:15 xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 08:15 xorg-fonts-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 08:15 xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 08:15 xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 08:15 xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 16 08:15 xorg-fonts-truetype-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 08:15 xorg-fonts-type1-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 08:15 xorg-libraries-7.5.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 17 07:55 xorg-macros-1.11.0 > drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 17 09:35 xorg-server-1.7.7_1,1 > > (xorg.conf is appended) > > Symptoms: > > 1) start xdm > 2) get login screen, enter username + password > 3) get ssh-askpass screen, enter value > 4) repeat from (2) > > (contents of .xinitrc files are appended) > (contents of Xorg.0.log is appended) > > I notice two (EE) lines, involving hal, which was upgraded > within the last week or so. Your xorg-server is also rather new. I just installed the latest hal port but didn't see any problems after restarting X, but I'm running xorg-server-1.9.4,1. > I am not an X guru; will someone who is please help me figure > out what I broke and how to fix it? > > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "X.org Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" When I was still running 7.5.1 I had this line in this Section Option "AllowEmptyInput" "on" > EndSection Can't say whether adding this line will help, but you could try it. -- Gary Jennejohn
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