Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Fri, 30.01.2009 at 23:19:41 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4
> and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now
> firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this
> error message:
> 
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
> 
> Then firefox3 freezes forever, showing something like the background or
> pixel remnants of windows/picograms moving over its window.

This should be unrelated to Xorg 7.4, as it happens to my 7.1 box,
running Xorg 7.3 and the latest firefox3. Please try backing down
firefox3 or some other related libraries that were updated in the last
month (when this started to show up)

Cheers,
Ulrich Spörlein
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