From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 18 06:05:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F4C16A400; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:05:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D214313C46A; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:05:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l5I65cRq025673; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l5I65ZF6025668; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:05:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:05:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20070618060534.GA25579@thought.org> References: <20070618043932.GA24771@thought.org> <46760E07.8010208@freebsd.org> <20070618045633.GA24906@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070618045633.GA24906@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , FreeBSD Mailing List , Gnome at FreeBSD List Subject: Re: DISPLAY troubles... X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:05:44 -0000 On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:56:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:45:59AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > This is a strange one. Last time I ran my broswer it worked. > > > Also, I *finally* had Gnome auto-booting. Just now, terminal > > > fails to come up ; likewise with firefox. I rebooted twice but > > > don't see anything unusual. > > > > > > I'm rerunning portupgrade -a for the umpteent time. If anybody > > > knows why the DISPLAY fails, I'd like a clue. "env" shows the > > > display as ":0.0", but nothing works..... > > > > You can try ktracing the simplest non-working X application from the > > command line. See if anything obvious shows up. > > > > > I can even get X working. Not kdm, not gdm, not even xdm. > I'll check the /tmp/.X11* file.... > > gary > > PS: I'm upgrading ports right this sec, but ought to be ble to > go in thru F3 or the like. > > FWIW: lots more of things likee theses in /var/log/debug.log: Jun 5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, endgrent, not found But in /etc/make.conf is NO_NIS=YES; so I don't no where the nis yelps are coming from.... any ideas?? Also, lot of -aP packages cming over via portupgrade. Also I /usr is X11R6 -> /usr/local/ It's gone from working to (!working) and back. And back... . HM. this is interesting, aabout kdm-bin in messages and gdm also: Jun 17 21:45:27 tao2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Jun 17 21:45:53 tao2 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6 Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 root: /etc/rc: WARNING: /etc/ntp.conf is not readable. Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol not supported Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: optional socket disabled Jun 17 21:46:11 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. Jun 17 21:58:30 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2 Jun 17 22:02:28 tao2 gdm[22133]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. Any X11/GUI type wizards know what this means? This is exactly what happened when I trried to lanuch GGUI stuff: couldn't deal with the display. I'm stumped. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix