From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 00:42:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4006E1065670 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:42:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52308FC16 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:42:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so2881363yxb.13 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:42:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Aza6tz3NOUbG0H7IzsqSB2C2ZKydojFRMidZi2tZIoE=; b=gcuPKIBszcdZ7AVfFevl92ryQTRZf6JLMKkbBQ3jiNPzO+nCuPvcFKmjhesZHrQL6L 0P2Mm6atgqWs1Ni8nDmV5/sjnGafKdnkfr7gC8nKeljXNE4CnA8YVOyw3Yv5KS/jMDof pLNcfxh6AR8xgjsBSJjhg2sNdfS1s3hoMWNRg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nYX8FzjnlHL0gDJ0NzmycX9BObJcbKFAMFgSkSisW0Va3dpqGXqzvtdnbTFDbYoTJy mk/aH9rSGNwmC5uKyJy2uV+2jTeKzWnnyR78aT53Z6xi74Ks6vNpt+YXnVbC3hLbd62P xt4PoB/yZxG0xv1w0VZxzo0uLs3hD1dgx79pQ= Received: by 10.151.106.7 with SMTP id i7mr529536ybm.117.1233189721242; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:42:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? (c-71-230-240-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.230.240.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o27sm6458166ele.13.2009.01.28.16.41.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:42:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4980FB70.2040605@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:42:24 -0500 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luke Dean References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:42:02 -0000 Luke Dean wrote: > > The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source > today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386 > 7-STABLE > > My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not > running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise. > > Everything appears to be great. My applications launch much faster than > they did before the upgrade. Shutting down and restarting X is the only > problem I'm having. This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new > Xorg. > > This is a desktop system. I launch X with "startx" from the console. I > can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg > server with ctrl+alt+backspace. There appear to be some failure messages > on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or > if they're important. I'm attaching a log below. I don't see any stuck > processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking > for. > > If I later restart X with "startx", some corrupted graphical junk appears > on the screen and the system freezes solid. Keyboard and mouse are > completely unresponsive. NumLock light won't change. I can't ssh into > the system either. > I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it. > > Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? > Do I need to switch to hal? > Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? -- Glen Barber