Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:23:05 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: green@FreeBSD.org Cc: aaron@alpete.com Subject: Re: Mozilla Firefox and firebird problems after sat 022604upgradeof FreeBSD-current Message-ID: <200403020423.i224N57E096766@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <200403011707.i21H7OE6013801@green.homeunix.org>
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On 1 Mar, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Why in the world are you going around recompiling ports and changing > dotfiles to find a lock-up? Either X is having problems, or the kernel is > having problems. Go to the _CONSOLE_ and execute the programs that are > "causing" the "lock-up" and you will stand a chance at actually finding and > fixing whatever is going wrong. > > Ctrl-Alt-F1 > <login> > DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox > > (or whatever) That's really a neat trick. I think it deserves to be documented somewhere.
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