This might be better treated as an X question so apologies if it is in the wrong place.
I use fvwm and a short while ago I found that the menus stopped working. Everything running still seemed to work, but I could not switch desktops or open any new programs via any mouse operation. I decided to restart fvwm to see if that resolved the problem, but the screen blanked and did not return. I then logged in remotely from my laptop and rebooted the machine.
It now goes through the boot process but hangs at the point where in would normally start the X server and run the graphical login manager (in my case, xdm) and gives the following error message:
Since xdm runs on tty8 it presumably cannot start. The machine keeps repeating the above error message but will allow text login. I have tried running
The last thing I did before this happened was to install the latex-beamer package. I noticed it caused a number of other packages to be re-installed and/or reconfigured, but I did not pay much attention to what. Presumably it had the effect of making a font library that X requires unavailable.
Is there a simple way to restore working? I have tried deleting and re-installing xdm as a "quick fix" but sadly it turned out to be only quick, not a fix
Strangely, my laptop is running exactly the same configuration of FreeBSD (10.0, amd64, with X and fvwm) as the desktop machine and it does not seem to be experiencing the same problem. I have not tried to restart fvwm or X yet, but neither has stopped working.
I use fvwm and a short while ago I found that the menus stopped working. Everything running still seemed to work, but I could not switch desktops or open any new programs via any mouse operation. I decided to restart fvwm to see if that resolved the problem, but the screen blanked and did not return. I then logged in remotely from my laptop and rebooted the machine.
It now goes through the boot process but hangs at the point where in would normally start the X server and run the graphical login manager (in my case, xdm) and gives the following error message:
Code:
getty repeating too quickly on /dev/ttyv8Since xdm runs on tty8 it presumably cannot start. The machine keeps repeating the above error message but will allow text login. I have tried running
startx from the prompt and get this error message:
Code:
xauth: file /home/paul/.serverauth.1135 does not exist
Shared object "libfreetype.so.9" not found, required by "X"
xinit: giving upThe last thing I did before this happened was to install the latex-beamer package. I noticed it caused a number of other packages to be re-installed and/or reconfigured, but I did not pay much attention to what. Presumably it had the effect of making a font library that X requires unavailable.
Is there a simple way to restore working? I have tried deleting and re-installing xdm as a "quick fix" but sadly it turned out to be only quick, not a fix
Strangely, my laptop is running exactly the same configuration of FreeBSD (10.0, amd64, with X and fvwm) as the desktop machine and it does not seem to be experiencing the same problem. I have not tried to restart fvwm or X yet, but neither has stopped working.