Created attachment 300623 [details] xdm.log After upgrading xorg-server from 1.11.3 to 1.11.4 it runs havoc. First, I have re-emerged everything installed from x11-drivers including ati-drivers. Furthermore I have re-emerged xdm (see below) and I have run revdep-rebuild, lafilefixer and I have checked/removed dangling symlinks. I'm using IceWM and xdm (or slim) as login managers. This constellation has been working just fine up to 1.11.3 Now, if I disable any login manager and use 'startx' everything works fine as ever. But, if I enable either xdm or slim, I get a blank screen or a screen full of colored stripes just after I have entered my password. Then my system is totally frozen, only the SysRq sequence lets me reboot my system. I tried to switch qtgraphicssystem from 'raster' to 'native' but that didn't make any change. I have attached Xorg.0.log and xdm.log. 3 % emerge --info x11-base/xorg-server Portage 2.2.0_alpha84 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_955_Processor-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:45:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.7 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.7-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.2-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2, 4.6.2, 4.7.0_pre9999::local sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.2 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r2 Repositories: gentoo local sunrise Installed sets: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb /var/lib/neatx/home" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/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="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.iso88591" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j4" 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 /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 atm avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gdu gfortran gif gimp gnome gpm gtk gtk2 iconv ipv6 jpeg kde lapack lcms libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt qt3support qt4 readline sdl session smp spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype udev unicode usb 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" 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 wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon" 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, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.4 was built with the following: USE="ipv6 kdrive (multilib) nptl udev xorg xvfb -dmx -doc -minimal -static-libs -tslib -xnest" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,lazy"
Created attachment 300625 [details] Xorg.0.log
Looks like the xdm initialised X server is trying to use dbus whereas the startx initialised X server does not. xdm does print this somewhat confusing message: xdm error (pid 15489): Dbus error: Unable to open session: Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success but it might as well be X11 or ati-drivers that causes this issue, for all I know. I am not sure xorg-server is to blame - wouldn't you have upgraded lots of other packages along with it? Also, what is in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Please attach that to this bug report as a file.
Created attachment 300685 [details] xorg.conf
(In reply to comment #3) > Created attachment 300685 [details] > xorg.conf Yes, I did install some more packages at the same time, only these might be relevant: x11-libs/libxcb emerged 3 days before x11-libs/cairo x11-libs/gtk+:2 x11-libs/qt-meta emerged the day before x11-base/xorg-server x11-libs/vte `qlist -IC x11-drivers/` yesterday So, the ati-drivers are NOT new. Furthermore, any problems with these show up immediately. Since 'startx' works just fine and xdm comes up, X11 seems to be functioning up to the point where xdm passes control to the WM of the user. Is there any simple method of debugging? Using a login manager is important for security at our university. Starting X11 by using 'startx' one can switch to a text console via <ALT> F2 although the X11-Screen (VT7) is locked. Thanks for your help, Helmut.
Reopen if this is still a problem.
