Restarting new Xorg freezes system

[Glen Barber]

Luke Dean wrote:
> 
> The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source
> today.  I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386
> 7-STABLE
> 
> My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added
> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not
> running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise.
> 
> Everything appears to be great.  My applications launch much faster than
> they did before the upgrade.  Shutting down and restarting X is the only
> problem I'm having.  This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new
> Xorg.
> 
> This is a desktop system.  I launch X with "startx" from the console.  I
> can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg
> server with ctrl+alt+backspace.  There appear to be some failure messages
> on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or
> if they're important.  I'm attaching a log below.  I don't see any stuck
> processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking
> for.
> 
> If I later restart X with "startx", some corrupted graphical junk appears
> on the screen and the system freezes solid.  Keyboard and mouse are
> completely unresponsive.  NumLock light won't change.  I can't ssh into
> the system either.
> I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it.
> 
> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?
> Do I need to switch to hal?
> 

Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING?


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Glen Barber