Mozilla Firefox and firebird problems after sat 022604upgradeof FreeBSD-current

[Robin Schoonover]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:23:05 -0800 (PST), Don Lewis wrote:
> On  1 Mar, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > Why in the world are you going around recompiling ports and changing 
> > dotfiles to find a lock-up?  Either X is having problems, or the kernel
> > is having problems.  Go to the _CONSOLE_ and execute the programs that
> > are "causing" the "lock-up" and you will stand a chance at actually
> > finding and fixing whatever is going wrong.
> > 
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1
> > <login>
> > DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox
> > 
> > (or whatever)
> 
> That's really a neat trick.  I think it deserves to be documented
> somewhere.
> 

It is.  X(1)   (man X)

You may need to install XFree86-manuals (x11/XFree86-4-manuals).

Although, being this is really about debugging system trouble, it may be a
good idea to document with whatever other stuff we have about the subject.

-- 
Robin Schoonover (aka End)
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