On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Waitman Gobble <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i >>>>> rebuilt >>>>> the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and >>>>> started >>>>> X and Xfce4 without any trouble, however today I'm out of town on the >>>>> road >>>>> and when I startx my machine reboots. If I log in as root and startx i >>>>> can >>>>> run xorg without xfce4. but if i try startxfce4 the machine reboots. If >>>>> I >>>>> try to startx without xfce4 from my non-root account it locks up. >>>>> It's pretty quick and nothing I can see in the logs... >>>>> >>>>> Anyone have any ideas about troubleshooting??? It seems like it's out of >>>>> the blue with no changes to the system that I recall. :) >>>>> >>>> >>>> First, make sure you have cairo-1.10 instead of 1.12. After that, run >>>> pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts. Rebuild anything that says it is >>>> missing libxfce4-utils. >>>> >>>> After that, well, I still see some unsteadiness from xfce-4.10. There's >>>> a long delay on start, like a DNS timeout (but I have working DNS). >>>> Switching to console works, switching back usually does not, rebooting the >>>> machine. Leaving X and starting again reboots the machine. These last two >>>> could be due to the recent X upgrade, except I'm pretty sure they did not >>>> happen until xfce-4.10. >>>> >>> >>> thanks. i'll check it out.. >>> >>> Waitman >>> >>> >> spending some time troubleshooting this. it's a weird harold, the machine >> runs fine for days doing various things (but if i want X i have to log in >> as root first and startx, otherwise instant reboot). I've noticed that if i >> do a pkg_add the thing reboots, if i run SciTe editor it reboots. like snap >> of a finger instantly. >> >> I can do pkg_delete, i deleted cairo (but it claimed to be 1.10). i'll >> have to re-add somehow, might have to build from source if it won't stop >> rebooting :) >> >> i'll try the pkg_libchk >> >> Thanks, >> >> Waitman >> >> > this is kind of strange, ls -l /usr/local/lib | grep cairo - what's up with > the zero-byte files.. i did do a pkg_delete but didn't expect to see this. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
Can't help with a solution. I had a very similar problem. I'm following 9.0-STABLE (rev. 235976 ca. week old) using xfce and have a thinkpad laptop with intel on-board graphics chip. My problems started when I updated the cairo port, and at the time I couldn't really believe that cairo was the cause of _the_ problem, because of the way X was crashing. What was even more frustrating was that the Xorg log file was not revealing anything other than "unknown error" and segfault. So, I didn't know what to do for a while, and after spending a couple of days looking for an answer, downgrading cairo fixed that issue. Couple of days later the new xfce is also available, and I have had no problems running it, on stable with downgraded (currently current again*) cairo. Be sure to read UPDATING with respect to xfce4-utils etc. It would be interesting to hear from someone who knows what's going on as this is the first major hiccup that I've had using freebsd. Thanks, Joe * http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?category=graphics&port=cairo&files=yes&[email protected] -- joe gain jacob-burckhardt-str. 16 78464 konstanz germany +49 (0)7531 60389 (...otherwise in ???) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
