[SOLVED] New FreeBSD 10.1 install: mate-session crashes

walterbyrd · 01-22-2015, 11:32 AM

FreeBSD 10.1
HP Pavilion a6130n Desktop PC
Athlon 64 X2 (B) 5000+ 2.6 GHz (65W)
nVidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

I am new to FreeBSD.

After I installed. I was able to log in once. Everything was working well, until the second time I tried to log in.

At first it kept looping back to the login screen.

I commented out slim_enable in rc.conf. Now, I can, at least, log in again. But I cannot run Mate.

I try running xinit at the command line, and it almost works. I can see the desktop for an instant. Then everything crashes. Oddly, this was working fine before.

Here is the tail end of my Xorg.0.log file

Code:

[   178.450] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x80dbdfa78
[   178.450] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[   178.450] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[   178.450] (EE)
[   178.450] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
    at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[   178.450] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[   178.450] (EE)
[   178.501] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

My .xinitrc files just have "exec mate-session" with no quotes.
Here is my rc.conf file

Code:

hostname="ash"
ifconfig_nfe0="inet 192.168.1.107 netmask 0xffffff00"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
sshd_enable="YES"
mouse_enable="YES"
# slim_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="AUTO"

I also get a lot of these errors on the screen:

Code:

Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting.
. . .
Fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

This really sucks. The system was working great.

After I posted this, I installed openbox. Openbox halfway works. At least I have something.

walterbyrd · 01-23-2015, 08:04 AM

I managed to get XCFE4 running. I suppose that is good enough.

hitest · 01-23-2015, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by walterbyrd

I managed to get XCFE4 running. I suppose that is good enough.

Glad you got it sorted out. I like XFCE on OpenBSD.

cynwulf · 01-23-2015, 10:24 AM

Could have done with more info, the few errors in that snippet of Xorg.0.log don't say much. Need to see the full log, xorg.conf and output of dmesg and kldstat

You don't run xinit from the command line, instead run the startx script as a normal user.

The desktop or window manager should in most cases be irrelevant, unless it's trying to use some kind of compositor and you don't have support for that.

Have you tried disabling hald, removing xorg.conf and just letting xorg autoconfigure?