Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:43:44 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fw: VirtualBox coredump on FreeBSD 8 during build Message-ID: <20100310154344.b5921c96.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <113836e22c55a3cb8337e7829e4deae9@bluelife.at> References: <20100310112053.8afb9d01.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <113836e22c55a3cb8337e7829e4deae9@bluelife.at>
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In response to Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>: > > Is it possible that you use X11 Forwarding so your DISPLAY variable is > set? That is a known problem and there also exists a Gentoo Bugreport about > it (http://bugs.gentoo.org/268227) that recommends to unset the DISPLAY > variable first before compiling virtualbox. That was the problem, right there, Bernhard. I was running from an xterm on a live X display. Turned off xdm and it's compiling just fine from a console now. Funny that my google searches didn't turn up any reference to that problem and its (terribly simple) solution. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/
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