No more Xorg

[galasrinnion]

After a pkg update, then pkg upgrade, the system will no longer start the graphical login screen. After the initial boot, The screen is just black. What happenened ?
xorg-server; xorg-drivers; and xorg minimal were all locked from the upgrade.
Can I recover ? ...OR does ghostbsd need to be reinstalled ?
I would like to recover my data at the least and tried to enter the slice from a live puppy distro; but alas the slice didn't show up.

[ericbsd]

The thing is that you did not lock your xf86 drivers. can you log in shell?

[galasrinnion]

The thing is that you did not lock your xf86 drivers. can you log in shell?

Yes I can login to the fish shell. Thanks for the quick response. What's next ?

[ericbsd]

Ok were there is a shell there is a way. You need to change change your pkg to the new_xorg repository.

In the fish shell input

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sudo ee /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf

replace

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url: pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest"

by

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url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/new_xorg"

You have can update your xorg by doing this

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sudo pkg install -f xorg-server xorg-drivers xorg minimal

You need to install back your xf86 drivers that your card need you can find it in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

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pkg install -f xf86youdrivers

IF you need more help I here to assist!

[galasrinnion]

You need to install back your xf86 drivers that your card need you can find it in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

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pkg install -f xf86youdrivers

OK...got through to install of xorg stuff. Now how do I get to look at the /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see which xf86 drivers I need to reinstall ?

[ericbsd]

look for

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Section "Device"

you might have to in your file look under the first one for Driver it might be "vesa", "intel", "ati", "nv" or other.

When you find your drivers you need to reinstall it.

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ericbsd@ericbsd /u/h/e/networkmgr> sudo operator pkg info | grep xf86
libXxf86dga-1.1.4_2            X DGA Extension
libXxf86misc-1.0.3_2           X XF86-Misc Extension
libXxf86vm-1.1.3_2             X Vidmode Extension
xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0_6    X.Org keyboard input driver
xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0_5       X.Org mouse input driver
xf86-video-ati-7.5.0           X.Org ati display driver
xf86-video-intel-2.21.15_5     Driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets
xf86-video-mach64-6.9.4_4      X.Org mach64 display driver
xf86-video-nv-2.1.20_5         X.Org nv display driver
xf86-video-openchrome-0.3.3_4  X.Org openChrome display driver
xf86-video-r128-6.9.2_4        X.Org r128 display driver
xf86-video-sis-0.10.7_4        X.Org sis display driver
xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_4        X.Org vesa display driver
xf86-video-vmware-13.0.1_4     X.Org vmware display driver
xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0         XFree86-Bigfont extension headers
xf86dga-1.0.3_1                Test program for the XFree86-DGA extension
xf86dgaproto-2.1               XFree86-DGA extension headers
xf86driproto-2.1.1             XFree86-DRI extension headers
xf86miscproto-0.9.3            XFree86-Misc extension headers
xf86vidmodeproto-2.3.1         XFree86-VidModeExtension extension headers

I did grep for you of all those drivers below.

you might need to reinstall of all those drivers below.

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libXxf86dga-1.1.4_2            X DGA Extension
libXxf86misc-1.0.3_2           X XF86-Misc Extension
libXxf86vm-1.1.3_2             X Vidmode Extension
xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0_6    X.Org keyboard input driver
xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0_5       X.Org mouse input driver

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xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0         XFree86-Bigfont extension headers
xf86dga-1.0.3_1                Test program for the XFree86-DGA extension
xf86dgaproto-2.1               XFree86-DGA extension headers
xf86driproto-2.1.1             XFree86-DRI extension headers
xf86miscproto-0.9.3            XFree86-Misc extension headers
xf86vidmodeproto-2.3.1         XFree86-VidModeExtension extension headers

Plus your drivers.

[galasrinnion]

No luck yet.
here's what I am doing : boot ghostbsd to boot splash, choose 2 single user mode. login with username + passwd. su to root. try to install packages.
However I can't tell if the packages actually install. ???

[ericbsd]

Not sure to understand what you trying to do from their. Do you have a second machine?

[galasrinnion]

Not sure to understand what you trying to do from their. Do you have a second machine?

Hi Eric again,
well I followed your directions and when I reboot the system still no GUI login screen...just darkness.
So in the previous post I explained what I was doing and thought maybe somewhere in that process I was screwing up.
On this computer I have 2 other linux OS's installed that are functional. Does that help you understand ?
If I can copy the home directory to a Linux slice I am OK with reinstalling GHOST.
I'm not sure what is messed up at this point, but if you are not too frustrated, let's continue to see if we can recover the system.

[ericbsd]

This is probably your solution http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linu ... ilesystem/.

If you need more help I am here to help.