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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:56:33 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Gnome at FreeBSD List <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: DISPLAY troubles...
Message-ID:  <20070618045633.GA24906@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <46760E07.8010208@freebsd.org>
References:  <20070618043932.GA24771@thought.org> <46760E07.8010208@freebsd.org>

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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
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  Gary Kline  kline@thought.org   www.thought.org  Public Service Unix




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