Problems with Xorg update

Eitan Adler eitanadlerlist at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 19:13:35 PST 2009


Arthur Barlow wrote:
> Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I
> noticed that many xf86 and various xorg drivers were.  Because the
> number was significant I used the "portupgrade -a" command to make sure
> all the dependencies were processed properly.  As it turned out, there
> were still a couple of places were the process broke and I needed to do
> a "deinstall" and "reinstall" on a certain package(s) before I could
> continue.  When the process was done I tried to run "startx", but I got
> an error.  I ran just X without startx or xinit and I get the message:
> 
>     Fatal server error:
>     Caught signal 11:  Server aborting
> 
>     Abort trap: 6
> 
> I've tried to reinstall xorg, xorg-drivers, and a handful of other
> drivers, but no luck.  I'm using FreeBSD 6.4, and the upgrade was for
> xorg-7.4.  Any suggestions?
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What video driver are you using?  Could you give us output of any logs
and config files?

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Eitan Adler
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