From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 18 04:56:36 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 8864416A41F; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:56:36 +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 2D85313C458; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:56:36 +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 l5I4uYpd024948; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l5I4uXPS024947; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:56:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20070618045633.GA24906@thought.org> References: <20070618043932.GA24771@thought.org> <46760E07.8010208@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46760E07.8010208@freebsd.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: Gary Kline , 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 04:56:36 -0000 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. Noy 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. > Joe > > -- > Joe Marcus Clarke > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix