Mozilla Firefox and firebird problems after sat
022604upgradeof FreeBSD-current
Don Lewis
truckman at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 1 20:55:33 PST 2004
On 1 Mar, Robin Schoonover wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:23:05 -0800 (PST), Don Lewis wrote:
>> On 1 Mar, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>> > Why in the world are you going around recompiling ports and changing
>> > dotfiles to find a lock-up? Either X is having problems, or the kernel
>> > is having problems. Go to the _CONSOLE_ and execute the programs that
>> > are "causing" the "lock-up" and you will stand a chance at actually
>> > finding and fixing whatever is going wrong.
>> >
>> > Ctrl-Alt-F1
>> > <login>
>> > DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox
>> >
>> > (or whatever)
>>
>> That's really a neat trick. I think it deserves to be documented
>> somewhere.
>>
>
> It is. X(1) (man X)
>
> You may need to install XFree86-manuals (x11/XFree86-4-manuals).
I've set $DISPLAY many times over the years, but ...
> Although, being this is really about debugging system trouble, it may be a
> good idea to document with whatever other stuff we have about the subject.
Yeah, I meant in the context of debugging the system. It would
eliminate the need for a serial console in a number of cases. It never
occured to me to try this trick when attempting to debug a system crash
or lockup while X is running.
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