Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 20:53:23 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: "J. Altman" <freebsd@chthonixia.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Exiting X: not so much.... Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sA3q49zqR_u3vVkcg7Fyy3fi=G6Yz9nu7d6SdLHzwo6g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <YVEb/uQvPnWslLhE@ghostyhead.chthonixia.net> References: <YVEb/uQvPnWslLhE@ghostyhead.chthonixia.net>
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:19 PM J. Altman <freebsd@chthonixia.net> wrote: > Greetings, list members.... > > I run 12.2-release-p10 r370449 amd64 with an Nvidia Gforce 1050Ti. > On Sept.26, I updated to the newest Nvidia driver. Ports were also > updated on that day and more than once over the last month. > > What follows is a description of the state of things for about > the last month. > > Startx works; Windowmaker works; as do all programs. As indicated > in the Subject: line, exiting does not work. > > I initiate an exit, and after about or not more than ten seconds, an > unusable black screen appears with a blinking cursor in the upper > left corner. The keyboard and mouse are unusable; no switching to > another tty and no ctrl-alt-delete. > > The desktop can only be rebooted by a warm reset or a power down. > > There is nothing relevant in Xorg.log: no errors nor warnings. > > Nothing in dmesg except the expected improper disk unmounting warning > followed by fsck. > > I don't have the first clue what could be wrong nor do I have any > idea how to begin troubleshooting. Given the paucity of information > I can offer, can any advice be given to me? > > Thank you, and best regards, > > J. Altman > Can you log in over the network and see if you can get some clue as to what is hanging? Are X processes still running and can you kill something to free things up? -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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