Re: help with 9.2 setup

Chris Pinnock <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:56:25 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64
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On 15 Feb 2022, at 16:33, Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm updating my network of servers to 9.2 from, variously, 7.0 and
> 8.0_RC1, starting with a local machine before I do the colos.
> 
> I haven't installed the etc set (yet) for fear of complications, but I
> have instaled xetc.
> 
> Two issues at the moment:
> 
> 1. Console keyboard is doing US rather than UK, despite encoding being
> set to uk in wscons.conf (it's a USB device).  Has something changed
> about wscons.conf?
> 
> 2. X Windows starts, then immediately disconnects.  No errors in the
> log file, but stderr reports: Undefined PLT symbol "_XGetRequest".
> It reported a few of these until I removed .xinitrc, .Xincludes and
> .Xresources, and now we're down to one.  I take it this is an
> executable being called that was compiled against older libraries, but
> I had assumed that the system xinitrc would only call 9.2
> executables, and I can't see anything there that wouldn't be freshly
> instlled.  _XGetRequest errors have been plaguing me for a long time,
> and I had hoped that 9.2 would get rid of them.  Incidentally, if I
> just run X the server does start, shows the trademark grey weave
> pattern, and just sits there with a working cursor, but doesn't do
> anything useful of course.
> 
> BTW, is there any fuller discussion anywhere of issues that can arise
> when updating /etc?  The Instasllation Guide is not all that helpful
> on this.
> 

Have you installed all the binary sets when you ran the installer? (Or did you do this from source?) The stock X sets should just work.

"/usr/sbin/postinstall check" might give you some hints on /etc breakage.

All the best
Chris

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