From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 6:30:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54DEC37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 06:30:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from glamredhel.hayholt.org (hayholt.org [195.18.102.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9999F43E4A for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 06:30:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@hayholt.org) Received: from eldar.hayholt.org (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by glamredhel.hayholt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830D4AF11; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:30:31 +0000 (WET) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:29:58 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger To: "Brent J. Ermlick" Cc: Scott Mitchell , "" Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? In-Reply-To: <20030102141916.GA59713@bermls.oau.org> Message-ID: <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> References: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102141916.GA59713@bermls.oau.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is > > to reinstall the entire machine, but i don't really consider that to be an > > option. > > That doesn't make sense. What errors do you see in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? > -- XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 i386 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Jan 1 10:02:54 2003 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org. -- this is what is in it. Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message