no graphics on a Dell Vostro 131

[Bakul Shah]

On Feb 22, 2021, at 6:29 PM, Lizbeth Mutterhunt, Ph.D <lizbethmutterhunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> so, it's my great-grandma and has since recent update of the glib package
> the following problem when trying to start the DE or even lightdm, sddm,
> cdm... the reference output of X is:
> 
> ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so0: Undefined symbol
> "eventfd at FBSD1_6"
> 
> what I did so far:
> 
> a) make kernel and userspace
> b) trying to compile devel/glib20 with an error something like cant't find
> textbook.xsl to be downloaded although there.
> c) trying to rebuild the linker, errors on compile: the above error
> message.
> 
> When trying to add hald to /etc/rc.conf I get the same error message! Is
> the linker dead or is it the new version 2.66.7_1 of glib?
> 
> what to do now?
> slim works but doesn't start any session (Plasma, GNOME, XFCE4). Starting
> plasma manually: same error.
> 
> Any help appreciated,
> 
> Lizbeth

There is no eventfd.c in /usr/src/lib/libc/gen in -12.x. It was
added on Dec 23, 2020 and seems to be in -13 and later.

If you are running -12.x, you may wish to either make sure you are 
installing packages from a -12 repo or update your OS to 13.0-BETA3.