Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:11:14 -0700 From: John Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Selected X11 Apps Suddenly Stopped Working Message-ID: <18818.50226.579282.929228@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <49828E57.7080709@tundraware.com> References: <49828E57.7080709@tundraware.com>
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Tim Daneliuk wrote at 23:21 -0600 on Jan 29, 2009: > In the past week or so, I've ripped xfce4 out of a server and replaced > it with blackbox. I also did some portupgrades ... and then the fun > began. Certain X apps - GNU emacs and wireshark notably - no longer > work. In both cases, I start the program from an xterm, and the > screen just sits there. This is true whether I install from ports > or the most recent packages tree. emacs will start with the -nw > option. > > I went back and ripped all of X out of the system, and reinstalled > it from the metaport in the current packages tree. This did not > help - same problem. > > This is a FBSD6.4-STABLE system as of 1-19-2009 running on an Intel > mobo with a 3GHz Pentium-D. > > Ideas as to what's going on or how to debug this would be appreciated. > I'm guessing it's some library incompatibility/missing but I haven't > a clue where to being looking ... ktrace should tell you where the app is getting stuck.
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