From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PmaMr-0005oW-Rx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:19:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A356E0B24 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 23:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D72E0AC1 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 23:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so6666096wyf.40 for ; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:05:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=AeHMv7860HGjiFY1P51lnFboHYZpDPtdInM0hQvqXOc=; b=qLpsjJOxIOWHUa3iKOLgS0bpv9rpPOmtFTVESsUim04HyEcS89jHGO9FcwAEkNCFXJ XcnvLkeleN57prhEVOD+6wcleFeVKCh9Ed0+coRaaxO+4eUJsLzC48bQB/5jPzC94EAT EBJ8+4WRSyImoiVFdlt3nvYFrYY5JPnZpQzhA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=SydK88qoI+M6K0FSQQWeLL1O9jKXjw7tK7ErupLlWf5vxCzRlzLiDbmu7ihs7KSYCq BtXqmtj7OokJEQJEEwQ4ECFBpJdIJqJRf+bh0DsIoWsFTC/WXuUgMcKZr/g3PrtjWnpe 18F0z7cJP5ZcN+u2U6t9/K6e2Clejg2tT9KBY= Received: by 10.227.146.80 with SMTP id g16mr12858129wbv.77.1297119934813; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:05:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm3820700wbg.0.2011.02.07.15.05.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:05:33 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 23:05:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201102052210.31445.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201102052210.31445.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1894640.v0FeftrDLm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102072305.44529.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 97af77f4d7dca8ec6093296b072181bb --nextPart1894640.v0FeftrDLm Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 05 February 2011 20:10:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:54 on Saturday 05 February 2011, Grant > did >=20 > opine thusly: > > >> Yesterday I caught up with portage and updated quite a few packages = on > > >> a remote workstation. The system hadn't been updated for about a > > >> month. The updates included some xorg stuff and some xfce4 stuff. > > >> Today when the workstation's user logged in via gdm, she clicked the > > >> xfce4 "Migrate Config" option, something weird happened, and she end= ed > > >> up back on the gdm welcome screen. Now whenever she logs is via gdm, > > >> the screen immediately goes black and she is routed back to the gdm > > >> welcome screen again. When I have grsecurity enabled I get this in > > >> dmesg: > > >>=20 > > >> Segmentation fault occurred at 000068e453633fdc in > > >> /usr/bin/Xorg[X:4777] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent > > >> /usr/sbin/gdm-binary[gdm:4775] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:1010/1002 > > >=20 > > > When you upgraded x.org, did you also rebuild it's drivers? > >=20 > > I rebuilt nv but not evdev. Could that be responsible for this? I'm > > not sure how since the gdm welcome screen comes up and the keyboard > > works fine there for username/password input. >=20 > I only mention it because in my experience I always have weird shit > happening when I upgrade xorg-server over a big version number change. >=20 > And rebuilding everything that underpins xorg always fixes it. Including > drivers and mesa. >=20 > In the old days when xorg was monolithic this never happened, as all the > drivers always got rebuilt anyway. Nowadays with xorg sources being > modular, we have to be a little more alert. =2E.. and if you have just upgraded to xorg-server-1.9 you'll (probably) ne= ed an=20 xorg.conf file. The old .fdi files are no longer being used. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1894640.v0FeftrDLm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1QesgACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa7QgCfZd4tB4OlWGcMioUXtsEU+/d7 7+IAn0SqK12wVW2K3zj22qZnTfhUTexT =doqL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1894640.v0FeftrDLm--