From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 16:14:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik0trGgQBZQfey0UUzMO+UE1hTVWknt+wbyEo3E@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iiki5a$7ro$1@dough.gmane.org>
>>>> 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 ended
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> When you upgraded x.org, did you also rebuild it's drivers?
>>
>> I rebuilt nv but not evdev. Could that be responsible for this?
>
> I can't answer that specifically, but you should definitely re-emerge
> it anyway.
>
> What happens when you run /usr/bin/Xorg directly instead of with startx?
> If Xorg still segfaults it may give you better error messages.
Thank you everyone. This was due to my using the nv driver on that
system. I tried switching to nouveau but it wouldn't work with my
onboard GeForce 6150SE nForce 430. I switched to the nvidia driver
and all is working.
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-06 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-04 22:26 [gentoo-user] Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads Grant
2011-02-04 22:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-02-05 0:54 ` Grant
2011-02-05 20:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-02-07 23:05 ` Mick
2011-02-08 16:38 ` Grant
2011-02-08 22:02 ` Mick
2011-02-05 22:15 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-02-06 0:14 ` Grant [this message]
2011-02-05 11:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2011-02-05 16:57 ` Grant
2011-02-05 16:59 ` Grant
2011-02-05 17:39 ` Florian Philipp
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