Re: 'Partial' X upgrade, now locked out of X server

From: Paul A. Hoadley (paulh_at_logicsquad.net)
Date: 03/31/04

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To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>

    On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:03:09PM +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
    > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
    >
    > > It looks like I have upgraded parts of XFree86 while installing some
    > > other ports, and I now seem unable to make even local connections to
    > > my X server. I must admit, X is something I set up years ago on this
    > > machine, and have just set and forgot---as such, I do not even have a
    > > good appreciation for what information might be useful for people to
    > > help me debug this.
    >
    > I guess the best idea would be to have a look at
    > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html
    > and try how far you get on your own.
    > Also you should save your old XF86Config somewhere. It's syntax
    > has changed from XFree86-3 to XFree86-4, but probably you will be
    > able to recognize most important settings.

    Thanks. I did bite the bullet and make the XFree86-4 port. I had
    originally wondered whether I could get away with the hybrid, but
    there didn't seem to be much point.

    > > While I am keen to get suggestions on how to correct this access
    > > control glitch, I would be happy to fully upgrade X if that's
    > > recommended. Somewhat embarrassingly, I'm not even sure how this
    > > should be done---via ports?
    >
    > Either via /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 or pkg_add -r XFree86-4

    Thanks Uli. I wasn't sure whether that port would install everything
    correctly in the standard places, but, of course, it does. 

    -- 
Paul.
mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net

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