DISPLAY troubles...

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:56:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:45:59AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > 	This is a strange one.  Last time I ran my broswer it worked.  
> > > 	Also, I *finally* had Gnome auto-booting.  Just now, terminal
> > > 	fails to come up ; likewise with firefox.  I rebooted twice but
> > > 	don't see anything unusual.
> > > 
> > > 	I'm rerunning portupgrade -a for the umpteent time.  If anybody
> > > 	knows why the DISPLAY fails, I'd like a clue.  "env" shows the
> > > 	display as ":0.0", but nothing works.....
> > 
> > You can try ktracing the simplest non-working X application from the
> > command line.  See if anything obvious shows up.
> > 
> 
> 
> 	I can even get X working.  Not kdm, not gdm, not even xdm.
> 	I'll check the /tmp/.X11* file....
> 
> 	gary
> 
> 	PS:  I'm upgrading ports right this sec, but ought to be ble to 
> 	go in thru F3 or the like.
> 
> 
	FWIW: lots more of things likee theses in /var/log/debug.log:

Jun  5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat,
endgrent, not found

	But  in /etc/make.conf is NO_NIS=YES; so I don't no where the nis
	yelps are coming from....  any ideas??  Also, lot of -aP packages
	cming over via portupgrade.  

	Also I /usr is

	X11R6 -> /usr/local/

	It's gone from working to (!working) and back. And back... . HM.
	this is interesting, aabout kdm-bin in messages and gdm also:

Jun 17 21:45:27 tao2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Jun 17 21:45:53 tao2 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6
Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 root: /etc/rc: WARNING: /etc/ntp.conf is not
readable.
Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol
not supported
Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: optional socket disabled
Jun 17 21:46:11 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: X server for display :0 terminated
unexpectedly
Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
disabling.
Jun 17 21:58:30 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2
Jun 17 22:02:28 tao2 gdm[22133]: Failed to start X server several times
in a short time period; disabling display :0
Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: X server for display :0 terminated
unexpectedly
Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
disabling.
Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: X server for display :0 terminated
unexpectedly
Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
disabling.


	Any X11/GUI type wizards know what this means?  This is exactly 
	what happened when I trried to lanuch GGUI stuff: couldn't deal
	with the display.   I'm stumped.



	gary



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