Issues after installing latest update 23.10.1 XFCE - solved -

[stefan]

Hi,
after installing the latest update 23.10.1 on GhostBSD Xfce edition I have the following issues on my Intel Celeron N3450 laptop with
Intel HD Graphics 500:

- I get suddenly logged out and the graphical login screen appears. Afterwards I am able to log in again
- After opening a PDF-document the screen suddenly freezes, I recognised high cpu usage and hdd activities.
I could't move the mouse anymore. After about 20 seconds I got logged out but the screen went black and
I had to switch off the laptop with the on/off-Button of the laptop.

I switched back to version 23.10.09 and everything is fine again.

Does anyone experience the same issues?

Thanks and best regards
Stefan

[neville]

Hi, welcome to GhostBSD.
You mentioned that your problems started after the update. How did you update GhostBSD? Did you update through the GUI or did you update through the terminal? If you updated through the terminal that sometimes causes problems.
Running as root pkg update && pkg upgrade -f will reinstall all your packages which may fix your problem. Depending on the speed of your internet and the speed of your computer, this may take a while.

If you get problems opening a PDF, try starting your PDF reader with the terminal and see if any error messages appear. Also check out /var/log/messages by running the command

cat /var/log/messages
You may be having Xorg issues which are causing your crashes back to the log in screen.
Run
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log to check for any errors

[stefan]

Hello,

thanks for your reply.

I updated with update-station (GUI).

I wrote this post this morning before I went to work. Now I had a bit time to investigate the issue.

I'm pretty sure that it is a Xorg problem. It has nothing to do with evince.

Now Firefox also crashed several times and this is the line in /var/log/messages when it happens:

Oct 27 17:51:53 ghostbsd-acer kernel: pid 1970 (firefox), jid 0, uid 1000: exited on signal 11

Here are the lines in /var/log/Xorg.0.log when I'm logged out:

[ 1629.335] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x871d3c1b8
[ 1629.336] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 1629.336] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[ 1629.336] (EE)
[ 1629.336] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 1629.336] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 1629.336] (EE)
[ 1629.337] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[ 1629.342] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

See also the attached complete Xorg.0.log.

Any idea what I can do?

Thanks and best regards
Stefan

[neville]

Thanks for the reply. It looks like an xorg problem. Do you make any configurations to xorg?
Since you can log into a working desktop perhaps you could try upgrading again or run the. pkg update &&pkg upgrade -f to see if that fixes it.
Sorry about the trouble. I'm on xfce and my updated system works fine

[stefan]

Thank you for your help. No, I didn't do configurations to xorg.

I opened a bug report on github.

At the beginning of the year I had the same issue after an update on FreeBSD 13.1. The graphic card and/or the
driver seem to be problematic.

So I will stay on Version 23.10.09 meanwhile ...

[neville]

Okay
Strange. As I said my update went fine. You can try looking at the GhostBSD telegram channel. Perhaps someone else can help you better than I can. I've found that running

pkg update && pkg upgrade -f

Fixes problems

[stefan]

Hi I did a pkg update && pkg upgrade -f this morning.

Seems it didn't help. Firefox crashed again a few minutes ago and I was logged out again.

[stefan]

I updated my 2 desktop pc's to GhostBSD 23.10.1 XFCE without any problems (a Celeron J3455 with Intel HD Graphics 500 and a Celeron J5040 with Intel HD Graphics 605). It's only this laptop which makes trouble ...

[stefan]

I found the reason why Xorg crashed after upgrading to GhostBSD 23.10.1 XFCE. I installed FreeBSD 14.0 RELEASE on a portable ssd and booted it from the laptop. FreeBSD didn't even boot to the graphical login. The screen went just blank. When I looked at the Xorg.0.log there were some kernel error messages. So I think a freebsd kernel change caused the crashes. I installed the xf86-video-intel driver to see if it works with this driver ... and it worked. So I installed the xf86-video-intel driver on GhostBSD 23.10.09 and upgraded to 23.10.1 with update-station. In the Xorg.0.log I see that the intel driver is now used ... and Xorg doesn't crash anymore.