when I try to run aticonfig, it segfaults: # aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf Uninitialised file found, configuring. Segmentation fault the end of the strace output is: # strace aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf ... open("/etc/X11/xorg.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3000, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b7deaea7000 read(3, "Section \"ServerFlags\"\n Option"..., 4096) = 3000 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x2b7deaea7000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/ati/initial-message.txt", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "Uninitialised file found, config"..., 39Uninitialised file found, configuring. ) = 39 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Process 13987 detached Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run aticonfig 2. see it segfault 3. Actual Results: aticonfig segfaults Expected Results: should run fine # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-suspend2-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-suspend2-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:30:10 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/jetty/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en hu ja" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /home/maroy/src/tyrell/src/corpora/tmote/src/tinyos-2-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib acl acpi aiglx alsa amd amd64 anthy avahi avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus dhcp dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam fbsplash firefox flac gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal http ical iconv ieee1394 immqt-bc ipv6 irda isdnlog java javacomm jpeg kerberos lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libnotify logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg msn mudflap mysql ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin obex ogg openal opengl openmp oracle oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png postgres postscript ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session smp sms spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb v4l v4l2 vim vorbis wma xml xorg xprint xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en hu ja" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fglrx radeon v4l vesa vmware fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Complain to ATI; nothing we could fix here, sorry.