startx hangs locally but not over ssh

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:21:45 -0800
"Jack L." <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Erich Dollansky
> <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> >
> > did you try the kill as root?
> >> >>
> yes, nothing

with kill -9?
> 
> >> >> didn't show anything, what does that do? The ati driver worked
> >> >> fine in FreeBSD 9.2. This card doesn't support KMS as it's an
> >> >> older laptop video card.
> >> >
> >> > if KMS is not supported, then take the VESA driver and see what
> >> > happens.
> >> >
> >> vesa works fine but wanted it to work with the ati driver which has
> >> acceleration
> >
> > Ok, did you upgrade FreeBSD?
> >
> > The recompile at least hal and the video driver.
> it was a fresh install. Now I am able to reproduce it only half the
> time after recompiling the kernel with the latest 10 stable.

It is getting more weird.

Fresh installs with binaries can cause some problems.

I have no idea what it could be now. What are the logs for X saying?

Erich