Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:09:45 +0100 From: "Herman Te" <hermante@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X server crashes on exit Message-ID: <68efd1c70809251709r69e541d5nc321b9b554fdef1@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I installed 7.0 from the CD with X. Now this is the first time I ever used FreeBSD or X, I know a bit from linux but I usually use command line only. So when the system finished installing I logged in and typed startx. First time it took over 2 mins (is this normal) but eventually worked, and loaded 3 green terminals and a small clock in the corner. I don't know what this is and the mouse was not working so I tried to exit with the ctrl+alt+backspace but screen went black and the entire system hung - I know this as my remote session aborted and the keyboard led stopped responding too - still no response after 30 mins. I realise that i need a window manager so I tried to install gnome from CD. However it is the same problem and the system hung when I tried to quit back to command line mode. After hours on google I found how to fix the mouse and decide to try building fluxbox wm from the ports. Before starting the X, I ran Xorg -configure and echo exec startfluxbox > .xinitrc. So now it starts up properly and works well but still I cannot exit the X. This is a big problem because the machine has no case so I must bend down and touch the reset pins with a penknife :P Also as the disks are not unmounted there are errors and one of the times my user account was deleted, so I had to reinstall the whole system. As I said I have never configure or install an X windows system before, and I was googling for ages. Could anyone give me some idea of how to diagnose and fix this problem? Thanks Herman
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