Bug 237862 – media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 does not save to xorg.conf

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) 2008-09-16 18:51:31 UTC]

nvidia-settings refuses to write to xorg.conf. it gives a "Segmentation fault".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start nvidia-settings
2. change something (anything) with the X Server Display Configuration
3. try to "Save to xorg.conf"

Actual Results:  
a crash. if you run from terminal, it will say "Segmentation fault".

Expected Results:  
write the new configuration to xorg.conf.

KDE 3.59
nVidia 9600GTm card

[Comment 1 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) 2008-09-16 18:52:01 UTC]

Created attachment 165576 [details]
a strace

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-09-16 20:37:10 UTC]

Does it try to write to /etc/X11/xorg.conf? (I can see how that would fail when an unpriviledged user tries that. The segfault shouldn't happen of course.)

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-09-17 08:19:20 UTC]

And please post your `emerge --info' too.

[Comment 4 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) 2008-09-17 11:18:24 UTC]

yes it tries to write to xorg.conf. I am the root user when trying to do this - but it crashes for the same reason when trying to do it as a regular user. here is my emerge info,











Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri drm dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kerberos ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xml xorg xv 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-03-06 13:30:27 UTC]

Try with current stable, reopen if it's still an issue.