On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:25:07PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> [removing cross posting to -gnome@ ]
>
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:05:34 -0700
> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:56:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:45:59AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > > This is a strange one. Last time I ran my broswer it worked.
> > > > > Also, I *finally* had Gnome auto-booting. Just now, terminal
> > > > > fails to come up ; likewise with firefox. I rebooted twice but
> > > > > don't see anything unusual.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm rerunning portupgrade -a for the umpteent time. If anybody
> > > > > knows why the DISPLAY fails, I'd like a clue. "env" shows the
> > > > > display as ":0.0", but nothing works.....
> > > >
> > > > You can try ktracing the simplest non-working X application from the
> > > > command line. See if anything obvious shows up.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I can even get X working. Not kdm, not gdm, not even xdm.
> > > I'll check the /tmp/.X11* file....
> > >
> > > gary
> > >
> > > PS: I'm upgrading ports right this sec, but ought to be ble to
> > > go in thru F3 or the like.
> > >
> > >
> > FWIW: lots more of things likee theses in /var/log/debug.log:
> >
> > Jun 5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat,
> > endgrent, not found
> >
> > But in /etc/make.conf is NO_NIS=YES; so I don't no where the nis
> > yelps are coming from.... any ideas?? Also, lot of -aP packages
> > cming over via portupgrade.
> >
> > Also I /usr is
> >
> > X11R6 -> /usr/local/
> >
> > It's gone from working to (!working) and back. And back... . HM.
> > this is interesting, aabout kdm-bin in messages and gdm also:
> >
> > Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: X server for display :0 terminated
> > unexpectedly
> > Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> > disabling.
>
>
> It seems it's an issue with X, not necessarily with your login manager.
>
> - Check what X logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log - PLEASE dont paste the lot in
> here blindly - errors / problems are usually clearly marked. Send those here
> for help.
>
> - Disable all login managers (gdm,etc), then start X by itself (startx) - it
> may start gnome, or maybe twm. if it doesn't, it would most definitely point
> to
>
> - did you upgrade to Xorg 7.2 recently? did you follow the upgrade process to
> a successful completion?
>
Yes, this was an X/xorg issue. There were logs in /var/log/gdm
that pointed to /etc/X11/xorg.conf; but the errors weren't
traceable. I created a new /root/xorg.conf.new and launched X.
(twm) There was a substantially longer list of stderrs from
X -configure. I'm still tracing these.
> B
>
>
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>
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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