On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Paul Mather wrote:
> > Yesterday evening I upgraded a Gateway 450 laptop from 5.0-RELEASE-p3
> > to 5.0-CURRENT.  Unfortunately, as a byproduct of that upgrade,
> > I can no longer start X.  Instead, it now aborts with Signal 10. :-(
>
> [...]
>
> > Has anyone else experienced problems with X ceasing to work after a
> > 5.0-RELEASE -> 5.0-CURRENT upgrade??  I did not change X at all during
> > the upgrade.  All I did was rebuilt world and kernel, as per
> > /usr/src/UPDATING.  After discovering X no longer worked, I rebuilt my
> > X server and X libraries ports via portupgrade -f, but still have the
> > same problem.
>
> I posted the same exact problem on this list last week (see "What
> broke X between 5.0R and recent current?" as subject line).
>
> I got two suggestions.  One was to upgrade to the latest
> version of XFree86, and the other was to add an explicit
> mode line for the screen size to your XF86Config file.
> Unfortunately, I didn't get the latter suggestion until
> I had went through the pain and effort of getting the
> latest version of XFree86 (right from the CVS repo, the
> last 4.3 release candidate did _not_ work) and rebuilding
> it and KDE.
>
> The good news is that it works with XFree86 from their CVS
> repo.  I didn't use a port to build it, I just cvsup'd
> their tree and did a 'make World' and it just worked.

First off, I have no idea what might have caused X to break on your
systems. I guess I'm lucky to have not run into such problems...

Would you mind doing a binary search (using date tags) to determine which
commit caused the breakage between 5.0-R and the date when you first
started having problems? Once it has been identified, a fix can be cooked
up.

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >



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