Twice today, xorg-x11 has crashed with Signal 11 reported as the culprit. Each time, X simply dies and I get sent back to the gdm login screen. I'm using gentoo on a P4-2.8GHz with 1.5GB RAM. The video card is an nvidia NV37GL: 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV37GL [Quadro FX 330] (rev a2) # epm -q xorg-x11 xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 # epm -q nvidia-kernel nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 # epm -q nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-1.0.6111 Because of my make.profile, I cannot downgrade to XFree86 anymore: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Dec 6 12:37 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.3 # ls /usr/portage/x11-base/ evoak kdrive opengl-update x11-drm xdirectfb xorg-x11 y-windows I will attach the /var/log/xorg.0.log from the crashed session momentarily. I searched for "xorg x11 signal 11" and found this bug which may have been related: 49180 Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just working in X when X bombs out; the most recent time I was using excel under the crossover office system. 2. 3. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3x acl acpi apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups curl doc emacs encode esd ethereal evo fam fastcgi fbcon flash foomaticdb fortran gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg kde kerberos ldap libgda libwww mad maildir mbox mcal memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl plotutils png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl sdl slang slp spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb wmf xface xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
Created attachment 48212 [details] Xorg.0.log.old left behind after the crash
As a further data point, I tried to upgrade my nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx to see if that would fix the problem. It did not. # epm -q nvidia-kernel nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1 # epm -q nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r1 I did, however, disable the composite extension which I had enabled before my odd crashes started. I was not using the extension (xcompmgr was never run when I crashed), but after disabling it my X server has not yet crashed.
If you continue getting crashes there, try the nv driver.
That was one of the first things I tried. The only problem was the nv driver wouldn't find my hardware. Fun.
Please try 6.8.1.902, it's had an update for newer nvidia chips.
"The" problem is still present. :( I updated my system, but no packages that I would consider to have any effect on this. I also did not change any configuration for xorg or anything I would consider affecting it. I will attach the XOrg.log, the log of what I updated and my xorg.conf. If you need more information: Please tell me. I also tried reemerging nvidia-kernel or disabling kernel-framebuffer, but that didn't help. XOrg still crashes directly after startup, I don't even see the nVidia-logo.
Created attachment 59165 [details] Emerge history as provided by genlop. The crashes happened after rebooting after the update of fbgrab on 16.05.
Created attachment 59166 [details] XOrg.conf (The driver I used when it crashes is "nvidia", NOT "nv" as stated in the file!)
Created attachment 59167 [details] XOrg.log The options for the driver in xorg.conf have also no effect on this.(I tried disabling them.) And I had no problems with the nvidia-kernel or xorg-x11 until this morning when I rebooted my PC after the small update. (The crash does not necessarily have to do anything with the update of course.) I am using: x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174 media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r4 I use this hardware: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600] (rev a3) And this is emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r9 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-s -j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb binary bzip2 bzlib cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt cups curl dba dga divx4linux dlloader doc dts dvd dvdr emboss encode fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external geoip gif gimp gimpprint glut gstreamer gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad mikmod mime mmx mmx2 mmxext mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mpm-prefork mysql ncurses nls no_wxgtk1 nomotif nptl nptlonly nvidia oav ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl php pic png posix povray ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba sasl scanner sdl session sharedext sharedmem skey slang smime sockets speex spell sql sqlite sse ssl subversion svg symlink sysvipc tcpd tetex threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xv xvid xvmc zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
I am very, very sorry. I have to admit that after I disabled the /etc/init.d/splash service I got XOrg working again... Again: I am sorry for bothering you. I will sleep a night over it and perhaps have a talk to spock tomorrow if apropriate.
Problem completely vanished... weird... (Close this bug?)
closing per last comment...
