On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:27:36 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From: Walter Hurry <walterhu...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 > 20:50:59 +0000 (UTC) > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:33:48 -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (r251572) amd64 in a VirtualBox VM. > >> > >> > > Recently, I started mentoring a Google Summer of Code student for > > the > > FreeBSD project. > > I worked with the student to set up a VM to run FreeBSD, with full > > graphical desktop. > > > > You might want to follow the instructions that the student followed > > here: > > > > http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rodrigc/2013/05/24/setting-up-a-vm- for- > doing-gsoc-work/ > > > > Only interesting details: > > (1) Student used VMWare player instead of VirtualBox (shouldn't > > be a > > big deal). > > (2) We used pkgng to install binary packages (3) We used one of > > the pkgng mirrors, since pkgng packages from > > FreeBSD.org aren't fully available yet > > > > Other than that, things worked fine, and the student was able to get > > a full FreeBSD with graphical desktop inside a VM. > > Thanks for the pointer to the blog. > > With hindsight, it seems that your student avoided the issue I ran into > by installing precompiled binaries, whereas I was using the Ports > collection. > > The problem was the Clang miscompilation of xorg-server, as pointed out > so kindly by Jung-uk Kim. > > Have you, or anybody else, sent a PR on this?
I haven't. I don't know whether anyone else has. > I used xorg-server with clang until recently. > Now I'm on r249781. I think the problem started after the perl updates, > but I might be wrong. > Anyway, if nobody filed a PR yet, I'll do it. Thanks. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
