DISPLAY troubles...

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:25:07PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> [removing cross posting to -gnome@ ]
> 
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:05:34 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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 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.
> 
> 
> It seems it's an issue with X, not necessarily with your login manager. 
> 
> - Check what X logged in  /var/log/Xorg.0.log - PLEASE dont paste the lot in here blindly - errors / problems are usually clearly marked. Send those here for help.
> 
> - Disable all login managers (gdm,etc), then start X by itself (startx) - it may start gnome, or maybe twm. if it doesn't, it would most definitely point to 
> 
> - did you upgrade to Xorg 7.2 recently? did you follow the upgrade process to a successful completion? 
> 

	Yes, this was an X/xorg issue.  There were logs in /var/log/gdm 
	that pointed to /etc/X11/xorg.conf; but the errors weren't
	traceable.  I created a new /root/xorg.conf.new and launched X.
	(twm) There was a substantially longer list of stderrs from
	X -configure.  I'm still tracing these.

> B
> 
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