Am 04/08/12 17:29, schrieb David Wolfskill: > 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. When I start xdm via console, it starts up, but only with a "Xservers" file that contains nothing but comments. If there are the lines localhost 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.128 !* it will will probably start not. Since xdm does not show this behaviour in a reproducible manner I susepct a bug. > > * 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 I should go with this and try. But as far as I know, since I have USB devices (mouse, keyboard), unpluggin and pluggin them is then, without hal and dbus, not recognized anymore, isn't it? There was a discussion once going one for this subject. Either way, at this very moment I do not know whether the OS or the X11 is faulty and I'd like to report this as a bug. > > because my experiences with hald & dbus were so unpleasant. I don't > use them; I don't even try to start them. > > Peace, > david Regards, Oliver
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