DISPLAY troubles...

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

fuck off

On 6/18/07, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:56:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:45:59AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > >   This is a strange one.  Last time I ran my broswer it worked.
> > > >   Also, I *finally* had Gnome auto-booting.  Just now, terminal
> > > >   fails to come up ; likewise with firefox.  I rebooted twice but
> > > >   don't see anything unusual.
> > > >
> > > >   I'm rerunning portupgrade -a for the umpteent time.  If anybody
> > > >   knows why the DISPLAY fails, I'd like a clue.  "env" shows the
> > > >   display as ":0.0", but nothing works.....
> > >
> > > You can try ktracing the simplest non-working X application from the
> > > command line.  See if anything obvious shows up.
> > >
> >
> >
> >       I can even get X working.  Not kdm, not gdm, not even xdm.
> >       I'll check the /tmp/.X11* file....
> >
> >       gary
> >
> >       PS:  I'm upgrading ports right this sec, but ought to be ble to
> >       go in thru F3 or the like.
> >
> >
>         FWIW: lots more of things likee theses in /var/log/debug.log:
>
> Jun  5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat,
> endgrent, not found
>
>         But  in /etc/make.conf is NO_NIS=YES; so I don't no where the nis
>         yelps are coming from....  any ideas??  Also, lot of -aP packages
>         cming over via portupgrade.
>
>         Also I /usr is
>
>         X11R6 -> /usr/local/
>
>         It's gone from working to (!working) and back. And back... . HM.
>         this is interesting, aabout kdm-bin in messages and gdm also:
>
> Jun 17 21:45:27 tao2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Jun 17 21:45:53 tao2 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6
> Jun 17 21:45:55 tao2 root: /etc/rc: WARNING: /etc/ntp.conf is not
> readable.
> Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol
> not supported
> Jun 17 21:45:56 tao2 sm-mta[21870]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: optional socket disabled
> Jun 17 21:46:11 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
> Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: X server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly
> Jun 17 21:46:18 tao2 kdm-bin[21947]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> disabling.
> Jun 17 21:58:30 tao2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2
> Jun 17 22:02:28 tao2 gdm[22133]: Failed to start X server several times
> in a short time period; disabling display :0
> Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: X server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly
> Jun 17 22:10:53 tao2 kdm-bin[24594]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> disabling.
> Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: X server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly
> Jun 17 22:43:34 tao2 kdm-bin[90030]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> disabling.
>
>
>         Any X11/GUI type wizards know what this means?  This is exactly
>         what happened when I trried to lanuch GGUI stuff: couldn't deal
>         with the display.   I'm stumped.
>
>
>
>         gary
>
>
>
> --
>   Gary Kline  kline at thought.org   www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
>
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