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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:29:06 -0700 (MST)
From:      Keith Seyffarth <weif@weif.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   issues with X not loading
Message-ID:  <20090128212906.35F33A6B41@maxine.cjones.org>

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On freebsd 6.0, I started having issues with X on Friday, and by
Sunday, clicking buttons on the XFCE toolbar or choosing menu items
from the XFCE menu weren't working. Subsequent to this, X would just
hang when I run startx.

I think what may have started this was trying to portupgrade gnucash,
because it looks like some port items that were dependencies for other
things (xorg-protos, for example) have been removed from the ports
system.

so, I tried portupgrade for xfce4, which tells me everything is
current. Then I tried portupgrade xorg, which did upgrade a lot of
things.

This got me to a point where I can run startx, and rather than
hanging, it, um, crashes gracefully. I receive this error:

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Parse error on line 75 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        "RgbPath" is not a valid keyword in this section.
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.

I can comment out line 75 referred to above, but that seems to put me
back to where I was before trying to upgrade: startx hangs the
computer...

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Keith S.



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