Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:27:36 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry_at_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 
<walterhurry_at_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.