In-tree nvidia-drivers cause X to crash at startup because of a segmentation fault. I can't get the output of `startx`, but I'll attach the Xorg.log. This happens with version 190.53, but probably it happens even with previous versions. I can't be sure of that because I've been using upstream drivers for some time because of another bug. Upstream drivers 195.22 works out of the box. The in-tree driver compiles and installs fine. Maybe it isn't caused directly by X because immediately after the installation of in-tree drivers, when the system was still using the upstream ones, even other applications failed to start, for example openarena. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install nvidia-drivers from portage 2. Reboot Actual Results: X crashes because of a segault Expected Results: X starts normally Portage 2.1.7.15 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:30:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.64 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -ggdb" 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/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-s" LINGUAS="it en de" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 apm avahi bash-completion bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups cvs cxx dbus dnd dri dvd dvdr encode examples exif ffmpeg firefox ftp gdbm geoip gif gimp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk hal iconv id3tag ieee1394 imagemagick imap ipod jabber jack java javascript jingle jpeg jpeg2k kvm lame libnotify libproxy libwww lm_sensors mad mime mmx modules mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mtp mudflap multilib mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses nforce2 nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl php pmu png posix pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection rss session simplexml spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssl subversion svg sysfs tagwriting tcpd theora threads truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdpau vnc vorbis webkit wxwindows x264 xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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="alias authz_host dav davfs dav_lock dir headers include mime mime_magic rewrite" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en de" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau nvidia nv v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 213761 [details] Xorg log after the crash
Bug has disappeared. Most probably new versions of X, nvidia drivers, glitz, etc... resolved this issue.
