From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 18:50:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7872F106566B for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:50:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CBA8FC18 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o5MIo1P4074880 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:50:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5MIo11r055706 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:50:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o5MIo099055705; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:50:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:50:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20100622185000.GA59719@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20100622183957.GA79362@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100622183957.GA79362@thought.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:50:01 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: X11 problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:50:03 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 22), Gary Kline said: > > guys, > what do i need to rebuild to fix this problem to get X working on my > server:: > > ethic# startx > xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.1054 > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libhal.so.1" not found, required by "X" giving up. > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > ethic# Looks like you buid X with hal support, then deleted hal. Either install port/sysutils/hal, or run "make config" in ports/x11-servers/xorg-server, uncheck hal support, and reinstall. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com