Xorg error

Dmitry Mityugov dmitry.mityugov at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 11:37:07 GMT 2005


On 8/19/05, Brian <socomseal989 at cox.net> wrote:
> I have the Xorg x window system on a freebsd box, and it has been working for a while. One time i remotely (through ssh) rebooted the computer while apparently the x window system was up. After the reboot i get an error when using startx, which says, "xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
> 
> X connection to :0:0. broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> xauth: (argv):1:1: bad display name "freebsd.local:0 [that computers host.domain] in "remove" command. the logfiles in an attachment. I tried rebuilding the kernel, making sure device io was in there, but that didn't work. any help appreciated.

Any references to securelevel in rc.conf?

-- 
Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements

"We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list