Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:25:07 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DISPLAY troubles... Message-ID: <20070618212507.0ad8744a@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070618060534.GA25579@thought.org> References: <20070618043932.GA24771@thought.org> <46760E07.8010208@freebsd.org> <20070618045633.GA24906@thought.org> <20070618060534.GA25579@thought.org>
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[removing cross posting to -gnome@ ]
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:05:34 -0700
Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:56:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 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. Not 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.
> >
> >
> FWIW: lots more of things likee theses in /var/log/debug.log:
>
> Jun 5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat,
> endgrent, not found
>
> But in /etc/make.conf is NO_NIS=YES; so I don't no where the nis
> yelps are coming from.... any ideas?? Also, lot of -aP packages
> cming over via portupgrade.
>
> Also I /usr is
>
> X11R6 -> /usr/local/
>
> It's gone from working to (!working) and back. And back... . HM.
> this is interesting, aabout kdm-bin in messages and gdm also:
>
> Jun 17 21:45:27 tao2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Jun 17 21:45:53 tao2 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6
> Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 root: /etc/rc: WARNING: /etc/ntp.conf is not
> readable.
> Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol
> not supported
> Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: optional socket disabled
> Jun 17 21:46:11 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
> Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: X server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly
> Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> disabling.
> Jun 17 21:58:30 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2
> Jun 17 22:02:28 tao2 gdm[22133]: Failed to start X server several times
> in a short time period; disabling display :0
> Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: X server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly
> Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> disabling.
> Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: X server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly
> Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> disabling.
It seems it's an issue with X, not necessarily with your login manager.
- Check what X logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log - PLEASE dont paste the lot in here blindly - errors / problems are usually clearly marked. Send those here for help.
- Disable all login managers (gdm,etc), then start X by itself (startx) - it may start gnome, or maybe twm. if it doesn't, it would most definitely point to
- did you upgrade to Xorg 7.2 recently? did you follow the upgrade process to a successful completion?
B
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