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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:49:51 +1000
From:      Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XDM login freezes on boot
Message-ID:  <1234349391.13067.22.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4992A934.2090903@maydias.com>
References:  <4992A934.2090903@maydias.com>

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On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:32 +1000, Warren Liddell wrote:
> AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2
> 
> I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this 
> machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything 
> loads fine, xdm initates an i get the standard logon screen, however, 
> you cant do anything an the mouse dosent work.  To solve this issue i go 
> to console via CTRL + ALT + F1 kill tthe XDM pid an once it comes back 
> up, everything is perfectly fine.
> 
> Anyone else had this odd occurance ?

Sounds like hald is starting after ttys is initiated. There's another
thread here mentioning that- never read the answer though. Maybe start
hald at the beginning of your rc.conf? Or set a sleep on your tty entry
for x?




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