Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:18:10 -0800 (PST) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901292215150.91794@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> In-Reply-To: <4980FB70.2040605@gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901271019470.79233@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> <4980FB70.2040605@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: > Luke Dean wrote: >> >> The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source >> today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386 >> 7-STABLE >> >> My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added >> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" >> to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not >> running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise. >> >> Everything appears to be great. My applications launch much faster than >> they did before the upgrade. Shutting down and restarting X is the only >> problem I'm having. This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new >> Xorg. >> >> This is a desktop system. I launch X with "startx" from the console. I >> can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg >> server with ctrl+alt+backspace. There appear to be some failure messages >> on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or >> if they're important. I'm attaching a log below. I don't see any stuck >> processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking >> for. >> >> If I later restart X with "startx", some corrupted graphical junk appears >> on the screen and the system freezes solid. Keyboard and mouse are >> completely unresponsive. NumLock light won't change. I can't ssh into >> the system either. >> I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it. >> >> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? >> Do I need to switch to hal? >> > > Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? > Well.. yeah... See my second paragraph above. Is there something in there that I'm not seeing that explains why restarting X would hang the whole system?
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