Hi Sivan, Sorry I've not had chance to look at everything you sent.
Firstly the message about SSH keys sounds normal as this is part of a normal X session startup. I suspect you have a key that has changed or needs a passphrase entered and it's just picking it up when you try to start X. The command history looks strange, you're running shutdown and reboot and then other commands, unless these are from another session? Openbsd needs the -h option to both shutdown and power off the machine or -r for reboot. Where is your startx program and is it a custom program? If you have done unintended upgrades and your /usr is also full it's going to cause all sorts of problems. I would recommend reinstalling a release from scratch if you can. Alternatively when the boot program runs you can choose bad.rd to get the installer ramdisk and manually repair from there but it's a rather complex process. On my system I had to boot bad.rd, type s for shell, run the MAKEDEV script in /dev to create device nodes and then run disklabel manually to rearrange volumes to make space. You would also need to grow or shrink the volumes. Regarding further troubleshooting of X sessions I would recommend moving .xsession to .xsession.bak and starting with a fresh configuration. I would need to understand more about how you are starting gnome like more details of any changes you made to the standard installation. Regards Ed Gray On Fri, 5 Mar 2021, 12:03 am Sivan !, <s9952403...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Stuart Henderson. > > I ran sysmerge. > > I posted, earlier in this thread, 11 images in response to Ed Gray's > comment that I had not shared sufficient details. In addition there > are four more images attached here that I think are important. > > One of these four images show the output of sysmerge and startx commands. > Another is a screenshot of a strange prompt that appears before boot, > it asks for the ssh password - not an encryption password, which > might be understandable, if I had an encrypted disk, I haven't > encrypted -- so why does it ask for the ssh password, before asking > for a login password in X Term? > Two more pictures show the reboot sequence that is some sort of a loop > when shutdown now command is issued as user or root, from x Term, then > the main screen command line is seen flashing the status, and > invariably reboots the system in X Term. This happened in gnome (or > gde) before the accidental upgrade to 6.9 beta and happens in x Term > in 6.9 beta. > > Thank you. > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 14:10, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > > On 2021-03-03, Sivan ! <s9952403...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > After sysupgrade -s, during which there were two or more automatic > > > reboots, freebsd, upgraded to 6.9 booted after asking password for ssh > key, > > > and started with xvterm console. Startx attempted to switch to gui, but > > > returned errors. > > > > > > Please advise. > > > > > > Thank you > > > > > > > Make sure you have run sysmerge. > > > > If that doesn't help then we need more than just "returned errors" - > *what* errors? > > >
