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Subject: Re: DISPLAY troubles...
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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.

Joe

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