Problems with Xorg update

Da Rock rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au
Wed Jan 28 21:27:23 PST 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:45 -0800, 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 Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I  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?

Did you read UPDATING?



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