On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 01:29:36PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > I loose hair ... > Since yesterady's "make world" (last make world: the day before > yesterday), getting FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 to r234000 or so, the X11 > system on all of our FreeBSD 10.0-CUR/amd64 boxes start rejecting the > start of xdm display manager. xdm is started from /etc/ttys on ttyv7. > This worked before flawless. > > At this very moment, I do have X11 started via xdm - but this is a > erratic and non-reproduceable process! > > This morning, I update world and kernel to r234030. I recompiled many > ports via "portmaster -f xorg xdm", hoping the new kernel/world could > affect the ports, but this isn't. > > Starting Xorg X11 server works fine. xdm fails. The log in > /var/log/xdm.log looks like: > > Build Date: 07 April 2012 04:51:08PM > ... > > > I feel a bit helpless around here since I can not get close to what is > happening. The erratic behaviour of starting xdm is frightening. > Starting xdm via /etc/ttys doesn't work at all, but sometimes, with a > bit luck, xdm starts when started from the console. > .... I am not having trouble starting xdm via /etc/ttys; my environment is known to differ from yours in the following ways: * My ports (save for x11/nvidia-driver and misc/compat8x) are built under stable/8. (I track stable/8, stable/9, and head on a daily basis, and have a common /usr/local among them. I also update any installed ports that have updates available daily.) * I am running FreeBSD/i386, vs. FreeBSD/amd64. * My last 2 updates were r233994 (yesterday) and r234031 (today). * I have a mildly hacked-up startup script for xdm. I doubt this is an issue -- I've been doing this since 2006/03/05 19:04:03 (according to the RCS log), though I have modified the script a few times since its inception. But the point here is that I'm not directly invoking the xdm executable from /etc/ttys. * I don't know that this is different, but it may well be: my xorg.conf includes a stanza: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" EndSection because my experiences with hald & dbus were so unpleasant. I don't use them; I don't even try to start them. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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