This happens to me about 50% of the time when I start X11 with "startx": Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list! SetClientVersion: 0 9 *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x94) [0x478a64] 1: /lib/tls/libc.so.6 [0x2b3f5c4487f0] 2: X(PanoramiXGetGeometry+0xf7) [0x4ec807] 3: X(Dispatch+0x1b1) [0x44a561] 4: X(main+0x476) [0x432b06] 5: /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe4) [0x2b3f5c436644] 6: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa2) [0x4320ea] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting (II) Screen 0 shares mem & io resources (II) Screen 1 shares mem & io resources emerge --info: Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/resin/conf /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/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/opt/no_archive/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.llarian.net/ ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/opt/no_archive/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt cups dlloader doc dri eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde libg++ log4cpp lzw lzw-tiff mozilla mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ntpl-only opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png postgres pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb wxwindows xinerama xorg xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please attach your xorg.conf.
Created attachment 96454 [details] xorg.conf
Can you reproduce this issue with the 'nv' driver? Also, I recommend you give xorg-x11 7.1 a try. Add xorg-x11, xorg-server, mesa, mesa-progs and the relevant drivers to /etc/portage/package.keywords to unmask from testing. Re-open the bug once you've tried these things.
