From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 06:18:19 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 AB2971065673 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:18:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LukeD@pobox.com) Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com [207.106.133.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6D88FC12 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:18:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LukeD@pobox.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E59C9584E; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:18:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from lukas.is-a-geek.org (unknown [71.113.98.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 821E69584D; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:18:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:18:10 -0800 (PST) From: Luke Dean X-X-Sender: lukas@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org To: Glen Barber In-Reply-To: <4980FB70.2040605@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4980FB70.2040605@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C9417D96-EE95-11DD-818B-CC4CC92D7133-96347044!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com 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 Reply-To: Luke Dean List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:18:19 -0000 On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: > 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? > Well.. yeah... See my second paragraph above. Is there something in there that I'm not seeing that explains why restarting X would hang the whole system?