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I have been facing the problem for months, where I can't run startx and startxfce4 after installing those packages

As mentioned here I have to run Xorg -configure to start off. But when I run the same, the last 2 lines I get are:

Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file

Abort trap (core dumped)

Now if I ignore Xorg -configure, and simply run startx, it says

xauth: file /root/.serverauth.766 does not exist

xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command

xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "list" command

xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command

And after a while:

xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "/unix:0" in "list" command

The contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log looks like this: enter image description here

If I press ^C, startx runs successfully, I see 3 terminals, as expected, but the mouse doesn't work at all. I can't move the mouse and click anything. The keyboard works on the activated terminal.

If I do startxfce4, xfce4 starts, but again, mouse doesn't work.

I have tried changing the Pointing Device in VirtualBox, but none from the available options worked.

I also had a previous installation which worked fine until I deleted the VM. After that whenever I try to reinstall DragonflyBSD, I get errors like these.

Is there a way to fix this whole issue?

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In your /etc/rc.conf make sure you include moused_enable="YES" at the end or else the mouse will not work. I just had this issue as well that that solved it for me.

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  • That didn't work for me. In fact my previous DragonflyBSD installation was buggy (xorg won't start), too. I just installed FreeBSD later on. – 15 Volts Nov 04 '19 at 02:27