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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:10:27 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help
Message-ID:  <20071108171027.GA63509@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <340a29540711080658y2567679epd1e11c584d1c9ed2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <340a29540711080658y2567679epd1e11c584d1c9ed2@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:58:39AM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> I then proceeded to the mergebase.sh script, ran that and when I was
> satisfied that all was done as expected, I rebooted my machine.  Well,
> that's when X failed to start.  So, how would I go about correcting this
> problem?

Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what exactly is the problem.

While you're busy solving the problem, it is best to log into a shell
instead of xdm.

Roland
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