This problem started when I upgraded from xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 to xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2. After upgrading, X would not start. The boot process ran without error, and then started xdm. The screen then went blank - there is no keyboard response, and no mouse response. In this state, I cannot ssh to the machine. When I reboot, /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows no errors, and stops at different places. Looking at the ebuilds, it looks like different patch sets were used between r1 and later releases. So far I've compiled r2, r3, r4 and xorg-x11-6.8.99.15-r1. All produce the same result. I'm not sure how much spec I need to give, but my video card (from lspci): 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11) kernel: Linux laptop 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 #5 Mon Apr 11 22:03:09 NZST 2005 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux gcc: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/specs Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.6/work/gcc-3.3.6/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.6 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-multilib --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,f77 --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) I have two other boxes, and both have upgraded without a problem above 6.8.2-r1. Please let me know what other information I can give to help solve this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile any version of xorg-x11 >= 6.8.2-r2 2. Restart X Actual Results: X won't start. Gives blank screen - no disc activity - no errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Expected Results: X starts.
Please add output of `emerge info`
emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.7.251/portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd eds emboss encode esd exif fam flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl pilot png ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slang sox spell ssl svg svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Take a look at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/DebuggingTheXserver -- You'll need to build xorg-x11 with USE=debug. It would be quite helpful if you could pull something useful out. Alternately, try dropping in an older patchset to 6.8.2-r4 and see what happens. You can find one at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/patchsets/6.8.2/xorg-x11-6.8.2-patches-0.1.2.tar.bz2 that was in -r1. You'll need to copy the -r4 ebuild to an overlay and change PATCH_VER in the ebuild.
I've build xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5 with USE=debug. I've followed the instructions on the freedesktop.org site to get debug output, and I'm afraid this is all I get: (gdb) Reading symbols from /usr/bin/Xorg...done. Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) (gdb) Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description SIGUSR1 No Yes Yes User defined signal 1 (gdb) Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description SIGUSR2 No Yes Yes User defined signal 2 (gdb) Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description SIGPIPE No Yes Yes Broken pipe (gdb) Starting program: /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux laptop 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 #5 Mon Apr 11 22:03:09 NZST 2005 i686 Build Date: 24 September 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Sep 22 11:04:00 2005 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Using vt 7 I presume that this is pretty much useless. Is there a way I can get more debug info? I'm going to try your second suggestion.
Do you have a blank .xinitrc in your home directory by any chance?
No .xinitrc in ~/
I've compiled xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5 using the patchset from here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/patchsets/6.8.2/xorg-x11-6.8.2-patches-0.1.2.tar.bz2 X now works on this machine. So it seems it's definitely the patchset change. Problem is I don't know how to log the errors I'm getting with the later patchset.
Try a binary search of sorts on the patchsets. For example, now try 0.1.5. If that works, jump forward 2-3 patchsets. If not, jump back 2-3.
I've compiled 6.8.2-r5 with patchset 1.1.5, and no X. I've compiled with patchset 1.1.3, and no X. So looks like the problem arose between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3. Is that of any help?
# (#85363, fd.o #1765) Add another relocation type to the ELF loader. 0487_all_6.8.2-add-relocation-type-10-to-elfloader.patch # (#82039) Fix direct rendering on R128 because of undefined WRITE_DEPTH 5137_all_6.8.2-fix-r128-undefined-write-depth.patch # (#82705) dont-grab: Don't grab the keyboard, so combo keyboard/mice work. 9003_all_6.8.2-lnx-evdev-keyboard-dont-grab.patch # (#80685) GCC4 compile fixes 9913_all_6.8.2-cfbgc-gcc4.patch 9914_all_6.8.2-mmx-gcc4.patch 9915_all_6.8.2-radeon-gcc4.patch # (fd.o #2750) Fix case where a smaller write-combining region blocks # write-combining setting of the whole frame buffer. Fix bug in wc setting code # when regions are first splitted and setting of write-combining then fails. 9920_all_6.8.2-fix-write-combining.patch These are all the patches that have been added between those sets. Try removing/adding them one-by-one and see which patch caused the problem. Time consuming, but ccache is your friend.
Here are the changes: +0487_all_6.8.2-add-relocation-type-10-to-elfloader.patch +5137_all_6.8.2-fix-r128-undefined-write-depth.patch +9003_all_6.8.2-lnx-evdev-keyboard-dont-grab.patch +9913_all_6.8.2-cfbgc-gcc4.patch +9914_all_6.8.2-mmx-gcc4.patch +9915_all_6.8.2-radeon-gcc4.patch +9920_all_6.8.2-fix-write-combining.patch For each change, you can edit the ebuild to have a line like this, for patch 0487: patch_exclude 0487 Add this to patch_setup(), where the other patch_exclude's are. An educated guess would say that 9003 and 5137 are least likely to matter, 0487 a little less so, then perhaps the others would be the best to test.
Woops, looks like I duped what Josh said.
I've compiled xorg-x11 with patchset 1.1.3, excluding patch 9920, and it works. So I've then gone to xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5 (patchset 1.1.12) and excluded patch 9920, and now I'm getting this error: * Failed Patch: 9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ! * ( /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5/work/patch/9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ) * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5/temp/9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch-6011.out So following instructions: laptop xorg-x11 # cat /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5/temp/9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch-6011.out ***** 9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ***** ====================================================== PATCH COMMAND: patch -p0 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5/work/patch/9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ====================================================== patching file xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 248. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c.rej ====================================================== PATCH COMMAND: patch -p1 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5/work/patch/9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ====================================================== can't find file to patch at input line 28 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |Subject: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk) |Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:45:47 -0700 (PDT) |From: Thomas Hellstrom <xorg-commit@cvs.freedesktop.org> |Reply-To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org |To: xorg-commit@lists.freedesktop.org | |CVSROOT: /cvs/xorg |Module name: xc |Changes by: unichrome@gabe.freedesktop.org 05/05/15 10:45:47 | |Log message: | Bug 2750: Prevent mtrr_remove_offending from ending up in an endless loop | if the offending region refuses to be removed. | |Modified files: | ./: | ChangeLog | xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/: | lnx_video.c | | Revision Changes Path | 1.928 +7 -0 xc/ChangeLog | 1.7 +2 -3 |xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c | |--- xc.orig/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c 2005-06-29 18:41:29.000000000 -0700 |+++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c 2005-06-29 18:45:04.000000000 -0700 -------------------------- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored ====================================================== PATCH COMMAND: patch -p2 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5/work/patch/9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ====================================================== can't find file to patch at input line 28 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |Subject: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk) |Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:45:47 -0700 (PDT) |From: Thomas Hellstrom <xorg-commit@cvs.freedesktop.org> |Reply-To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org |To: xorg-commit@lists.freedesktop.org | |CVSROOT: /cvs/xorg |Module name: xc |Changes by: unichrome@gabe.freedesktop.org 05/05/15 10:45:47 | |Log message: | Bug 2750: Prevent mtrr_remove_offending from ending up in an endless loop | if the offending region refuses to be removed. | |Modified files: | ./: | ChangeLog | xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/: | lnx_video.c | | Revision Changes Path | 1.928 +7 -0 xc/ChangeLog | 1.7 +2 -3 |xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c | |--- xc.orig/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c 2005-06-29 18:41:29.000000000 -0700 |+++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c 2005-06-29 18:45:04.000000000 -0700 -------------------------- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored ====================================================== PATCH COMMAND: patch -p3 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5/work/patch/9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ====================================================== can't find file to patch at input line 28 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |Subject: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk) |Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:45:47 -0700 (PDT) |From: Thomas Hellstrom <xorg-commit@cvs.freedesktop.org> |Reply-To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org |To: xorg-commit@lists.freedesktop.org | |CVSROOT: /cvs/xorg |Module name: xc |Changes by: unichrome@gabe.freedesktop.org 05/05/15 10:45:47 | |Log message: | Bug 2750: Prevent mtrr_remove_offending from ending up in an endless loop | if the offending region refuses to be removed. | |Modified files: | ./: | ChangeLog | xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/: | lnx_video.c | | Revision Changes Path | 1.928 +7 -0 xc/ChangeLog | 1.7 +2 -3 |xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c | |--- xc.orig/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c 2005-06-29 18:41:29.000000000 -0700 |+++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c 2005-06-29 18:45:04.000000000 -0700 -------------------------- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored ====================================================== PATCH COMMAND: patch -p4 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5/work/patch/9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ====================================================== can't find file to patch at input line 28 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |Subject: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk) |Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:45:47 -0700 (PDT) |From: Thomas Hellstrom <xorg-commit@cvs.freedesktop.org> |Reply-To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org |To: xorg-commit@lists.freedesktop.org | |CVSROOT: /cvs/xorg |Module name: xc |Changes by: unichrome@gabe.freedesktop.org 05/05/15 10:45:47 | |Log message: | Bug 2750: Prevent mtrr_remove_offending from ending up in an endless loop | if the offending region refuses to be removed. | |Modified files: | ./: | ChangeLog | xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/: | lnx_video.c | | Revision Changes Path | 1.928 +7 -0 xc/ChangeLog | 1.7 +2 -3 |xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c | |--- xc.orig/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c 2005-06-29 18:41:29.000000000 -0700 |+++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c 2005-06-29 18:45:04.000000000 -0700 -------------------------- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored
(In reply to comment #13) > I've compiled xorg-x11 with patchset 1.1.3, excluding patch 9920, and it works. > So I've then gone to xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5 (patchset 1.1.12) and excluded patch > 9920, and now I'm getting this error: > > > * Failed Patch: 9925_all_6.8.2-fix-mtrr-endless-loop.patch ! You'll also have to exclude 9925, since it's dependent on 9920.
Ok, it's now working by excluding patch 9920 and 9925. So what now? Is there something about these patches that tells you what's going on? Or do I just keep excluding these patches when I compile xorg. If so, is there a way to deal with this without having to edit the ebuilds manually?
(In reply to comment #15) > Ok, it's now working by excluding patch 9920 and 9925. So what now? Now we politely ask Josh to drop those two patches from the 6.8.2 patchset. =) So, Josh?
Those patches are both still in CVS head so this problem will only come back once 7.0 is released... According to the upstream bug from where these patches came (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2750), this bug affects devices that set up write-combined MTRR, which your card might not do (hence why you don't need the patch). It's unclear as to whether the problem it solves is critical or just for correctness. I recommend posting your problem on bugs.freedesktop.org, referencing this bug and fdo's 2750. That way we can get this bug actually fixed, instead of delayed.
Marking bug upstream. Please post a bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org and put the link here. Thanks :)
