From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 22:27:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B380637B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:27:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110D943F13 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:27:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 520023893678-0001@t-online.de) Received: from fwd00.sul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18Wsdg-0002m8-01; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:27:32 +0100 Received: from pD901727A.dip.t-dialin.net (520023893678-0001@[217.1.114.122]) by fwd00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18Wsdd-1tejPkC; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:27:29 +0100 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:26:58 +0000 (GMT) From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa) To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Help! my wm just went awol from X! In-Reply-To: <20030110061736.GA7080@keyslapper.org> Message-ID: <20030110072423.W31332-100000@small.pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 520023893678-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Ok, this one is pretty frustrating. We had a power cut tonight, and > my machine rebooted. It came up quite nicely, better than I expected, > considering I had recently updated some of the startup packages, and > hadn't yet had a chance to power cycle it myslef. > > One problem. Now, when I log into X, my window manager won't come up. > I get the dull grey grid with an 'X' mouse pointer, and the console, > but no menu, terminal, nothing. My ~/.Xclients hasn't changed, and > that's where I've always started fvwm2 from I even had it redirect > error output to a file so I could see what was the problem when > something didn't work. Now, I see nothing. The ~/.FVWM-errors file > never gets created, so it looks like .Xclients never gets executed. > > Did the XFree86 desktop init file change? I can't find any docs on > it. Manpages aren't much help either. And since I can't get > anythign running in X, I can't get a browser up to go to xfree86.org > and see. For these cases of emergency a text browser is very helpful. Try /usr/ports/www/links It display www.freebsd.org pretty well. > Hell, I like the TTY terminals for some things, but even > Mutt is kindof a pain there. > > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. > > Lou > -- > Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://www.keyslapper.org > > "Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better > for you and me." > -- J. R. R. Tolkien > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message