Bug 147794

Summary:	crash when using xf86-input-evdev driver
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) <plaes>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	xorg-input-evedev-fix.patch

Description Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2006-09-16 04:12:21 UTC

(II) evdev brain: Rescanning devices (1).
(**) Option "AlwaysCore"
(**) Logitech Wireless Mouse/Remote-usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input0: always reports core events
(**) Option "AlwaysCore"
(**) Logitech Wireless Mouse/Remote-usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input1: always reports core events
(II) Logitech Wireless Mouse/Remote-usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input1: Found 1 absolute axes.
(II) Logitech Wireless Mouse/Remote-usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input1: Configuring as pointer.
(**) Logitech Wireless Mouse/Remote-usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input1: Configuring in Absolute mode.
(**) Logitech Wireless Mouse/Remote-usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input1: AbsoluteScreen: -1.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x96) [0x80b90bc]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [0xb7bf348e]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [0xb7bf417c]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so(evdevNewDriver+0x42) [0xb7bf42c4]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [0xb7bf32c1]
6: /usr/bin/X(InitInput+0xa2) [0x8094cdc]
7: /usr/bin/X(main+0x39f) [0x806e514]
8: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7d33878]
9: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa9) [0x806da71]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Comment 1 Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2006-09-16 04:13:51 UTC

Created attachment 97142 [details, diff]
xorg-input-evedev-fix.patch

Found this from the xf86-input-evdev git tree.

Comment 2 Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2006-09-16 04:15:41 UTC

Forgot to mention that the patch below fixes the crash ;)

Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-16 09:16:40 UTC

Thanks for the patch.  Added in -r2.