xorg-server package problem

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Feb 24 21:17:23 UTC 2007


On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:08:00PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> There seems to be a problem with the xorg-server package as currently 
> available in the packages-6-stable directories on the ftp mirrors - it fails 
> to initialize a display due to an error in its vty handling code. 
> 
> I wonder if perhaps something changed on pointyhat that causes some kind of 
> buildtime misconfiguration there. Does xorg-server perhaps probe around 
> in /proc?

/proc isn't mounted in the builds.  It does build in a jail, so it's
possible it's probing for something that is prohibited in jails and
concluding that FreeBSD does not support a feature.

Kris


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