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 1PlqR2-0005VR-Ri for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:16:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1D1B1C049; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 22:15:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7791C05B for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 22:15:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388AC1B40B8 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 22:15:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.879 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.879 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.280, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sopP39yN5VtQ for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 22:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F3C1B4053 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 22:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PlqPX-0006v4-Cd for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:15:19 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-181-130.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.181.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:15:19 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-181-130.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:15:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:15:00 -0800 Message-ID: References: <201102050038.33875.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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-181-130.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110121 Thunderbird/3.3a2 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fbca293d44d5df47672a2181a5fe5509 On 02/04/2011 04:54 PM, Grant wrote: >>> 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.