Restarting new Xorg freezes system

Luke Dean LukeD at pobox.com
Thu Jan 29 22:18:19 PST 2009



On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote:

> 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?
>

Well.. yeah... See my second paragraph above.
Is there something in there that I'm not seeing that explains why
restarting X would hang the whole system?


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