Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current

	From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry_at_gmail.com>
	Subject: Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current
	Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:53:53 +0000 (UTC)

	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.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=179625

Perhaps you could follow it up with the details of
your graphics card, Xorg log, etc.

Anton