Apologies if this has been posted and addressed but I have GhostBSD installed on a VM, after initial install I was prompted t update, I updated and now it boots to terminal. I'm not too savvy with BSD to shenaniganize my way outta this, so any help would be appreciated.

When a GhostBSD issue is raised, perform the following steps.

1. Ask the consumer to provide a brief summary of the problem and include a screenshot or photo of the error message.

2. Ask, "Did the issue occurred on livecd, bare metal, or virtual machine?"

If bare metal or livecd, ask for the computer's manufacturer and model.

If virtual machine, ask for the assigned VM settings.

3. Ask for output from the following command.

ghostbsd-version -kro

vmstat 1 5
cat /boot/loàder.conf
cat /etc/rc.conf
df -Th
mount

startx What error message appears.

I am having the same issue on physical hardware. When I try startx, I get this error :
This server has a video driver ABI version of 25.2 that this driver does not officially support.

It then offers a link to nvidia.

I installed from an image that I downloaded a week ago and all was well after the install until I upgraded.

Was there a closed source driver and now there is not? What has gone wrong? -Pat

Hi,
please have a look to this article and verify if you have the same error message:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/nvid ... abi.86096/
you can give the "workaround" a try, as your X is already not starting, so it cannot be more worse,
but you have to verify hich xorg.conf is used in your case, in /etc/X11 or as described in the article:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "IgnoreABI" "true"
EndSection

other solution is to use a newer, higher nvidia driver if supported or another gpu modell when on premise.
Maybe it helps,
Ciao Arnold

Thanks aschiebe!
It worked. Here is what I did.
1)I fully reinstalled.
2)I made a copy xorg.conf.original
3)I upgraded
4)before restarting, I copied xorg.conf.upgrade
5)I diff'ed them, they were the same
6)before restarting, I typed in the recommended snippet.
7)I restarted and all is good, I have a small bug with the screen saver lockout but all is good.

My issue was due to a driver, I can't recall the driver that was listed that I used, but it wasn't the Intel, either of the AMD, or VESA driver, the last option. Haven't had any issues since I changed drivers. Thanks all.

CPU: Intel Celeron N2940 (4) @ 1.833GHz
GPU: Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series

Before I upgraded the graphics were working as expected.

1. Did a fresh install, updated in terminal, after update X fails.
2. Did a re-install and used the Update Station, X failed after reboot.
3. I then installed Lynx text browser and downloaded the latest GhostBSD iso, dd to usb flash and the installer could not start the X server from the live ram disk.

I am now using xf86-video-intel to get a GUI display working because latest updates do not work on my hardware for some reason.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. I have tried re-installing drm-kmod and mesa-dri and Xorg. I have also added i915kms to /boot/loader.conf and tried i915kms / i915kms.ko full path and without full path in /etc/rc.conf Nothing has worked other than installing xf86-video-intel. But with xf86-video-intel the GPU performance is very slow.

kldstat
cat /boot/loader.conf
cat /etc/rc.conf
Can you find the version number of 'X'
pciconf -lv What is the graphics card model number and the output of this command for your graphics card.

Sorry for Late repy, LIbreQuest, Fred
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/nvid ... abi.86096/ Did you find any help with this FreeBSD Forum post?