Bug 344573 – kde-4.4.5 freezes on start

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tomasz 'Trog' Welman 2010-11-07 19:18:28 UTC]

I'm running the system, then services like:
dbus
consolekit
hal
are being started.
Then I login as root in the console, and:
/etc/init.d/xdm start
few seconds later I see mouse cursor for ~2 seconds (cannot move it) on a black screen. Then the mouse disappears, and I end up with black screen, and completely freezed computer. I can't do nothing except hard restart. :-(

However, when after I login, before I run
/etc/init.d/xdm start
I run:
/etc/init.d/dbus restart
(dbus,consolekit,hal will restart here)
and then I start xdm, it's working perfectly.

I've tried all available nvidia drivers for that. Masked, not masked, downloaded directly from NVIDIA site, so this may not be NVIDIA/GLX issue; an remember after dbus restart KDE works.

Anyone can help?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
run the system
login as root
start /etc/init.d/xdm
Actual Results:  
the system freezes completely

Expected Results:  
KDE starts and works properly.

> emerge --info
Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
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"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm hal iconv ipv6 jpeg kde lcms libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner 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 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 cgi cgid 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" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"                                                                                                          
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY     

> gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.4-r2/work/gcc-4.4.4/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.4 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --without-ppl --without-cloog --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --enable-multilib --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/python --enable-checking=release --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.4.4-r2 p1.2, pie-0.4.5'                     
Thread model: posix           
gcc version 4.4.4 (Gentoo 4.4.4-r2 p1.2, pie-0.4.5)     





> uname -a
Linux deathstar 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 #7 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 6 17:05:56 CET 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux                


dbus version: 1.2.24

[Comment 1 Tomasz 'Trog' Welman 2010-11-07 19:19:56 UTC]

Created attachment 253545 [details]
installed ebuilds list

[Comment 2 Tomasz 'Trog' Welman 2010-11-08 07:19:02 UTC]

I've installed from iso/stage3: 20101021.

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-01-14 21:54:23 UTC]

Can you please try disabling compositing in xorg.conf ?!
What happens with the nv driver?
Please attach your kernel .config!

[Comment 4 Tomasz 'Trog' Welman 2011-01-14 21:59:21 UTC]

This was actually a bug in xorg. I've reinstalled xorg-server, some of the xorg libraries and drivers (keyboard, mouse, evdev) and the problem disappeared. By reinstall i mean an uprade to a newer version.

[Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-01-14 22:17:09 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This was actually a bug in xorg. I've reinstalled xorg-server, some of the xorg
> libraries and drivers (keyboard, mouse, evdev) and the problem disappeared. By
> reinstall i mean an uprade to a newer version.
> 

OK, thank you! :) Another bug down the drain...