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Problem closing window manager
Hello gang. I've got a strange problem, and I'm need some help figuring out exactly what I'm dealing with.
When I start BSD (PC-BSD 8.2 to be exact), I'm greeted with a graphical login screen, which soon turns me over to my window manager. Everything works fine until I try to exit my window manager. The screen turns black, flickers for a moment, then freezes. The only way to get out of this is to hit the reset button on my computer. That results in an emergency shutdown. When text returns to the screen, the last thing written is "Writing Entropy File" followed by "Terminated." The system then proceeds to close down system processes, synchronize nodes, and the like, ultimately shutting itself down. I haven't been able to so a "graceful" shutdown of BSD since installing this version. Has anyone in here encountered something like this? If so, what exactly am I dealing with? And how do I fix it? Thanks in advance, RJPugh |
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Open an xterm, or similar.
Code:
top ps Code:
pkill hald killall -HUP Xorg
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Thanks. I tried this, but as soon as I entered the killall command, I got the same result. That is, a frozen screen that can only be solved by doing a hard reset.
It seems like the X-session is unable to restart itself. As an experiment, I want to try doing an old-fashioned command line login; the kind where I have to enter startx or something similar to invoke the GUI. What kind of settings should I put into etc/ttys to achieve this? (I've never done this before, in case you haven't guessed.) RJPugh |
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Ctrl-Alt-Backspace has no effect.
Neither does Ctrl-Alt-[Function Key]. X isn't shutting down correctly, and I want to know why. Or better yet, how to fix it. I'm currently looking into video driver issues. |
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I don not know if the PC-BSD developers enabled <ctl><alt><bksp> but it is disabled by default in FreeBSD 8.2
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO.../x-config.html Quote:
If you want to try to startx without the graphical login, at the graphical screen <ctl><alt>F2 which should give you a login prompt. Login and then Quote:
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First off, thanks for all your help thus far. A solution may actually be out there...
Anyway, I've added the codes for enabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, so at the very least I should be able to break out of the frozen screen without rebooting my computer. I looked at the suggested logs, and the last several lines contained errors relating to config/hal, and a few references to keymaps in server-0.xkm. Any insights on those? That still says to be that X isn't closing down or resetting itself correctly. For whatever reason. I suspect part of the problem, if not the root problem, is my video driver. My graphics card is a GeForce4 T1-4200 series. This is covered by the standard NVIDIA driver, but one of the legacy NVIDIA drivers specifically mentions this card. I'm now attempting to download and install the legacy driver and see if that changes anything. But I'm looking at other options as well, just to be safe. |
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