Summary: | xorg-x11: possible solution to intermittent, seeming random xorg lockups | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jack Browning <spaminacan> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | major | Keywords: | Inclusion |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2880 | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Jack Browning
2005-10-18 15:25:16 UTC
I just ran into this problem with xorg-x11-6.8.99.15-r4. About once every 2 minutes the machine would completely lockup only when X was running. Applied the patch listed as "Use system method for byte/word accesses (take 3)" (this seems to be the one that got applied to the Xorg CVS) Everything seems to be running fine now. It would be real nice to get this patch applied to the default ebuilds. Actually, take3 isn't in CVS yet but it soon will be. When it is I'll add it. Just to clarify things, it appears that the finalized patch for this issue is the last one in the list of attachments for the bug report: "Patch to implement byte and word level pci config access". That is also the patch that I have linked in my original comment. Please note, however, that in my case the patch did not resolve the lockup issue I was experiencing. I am now running the stock xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 from portage. This is sooooo frustrating... Hmm, it would appear you have a different problem then. Have you tried 6.8.99.15? This has been applied upstream. If I make another 6.8.2 patchset I plan to include this patch. I've experienced this bug after I emerged xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 upgrading from xorg- x11-6.8.2-r1. No mouse, no keyb, no vt switching possible and no external ssh access. I downgraded to xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 and everything is fine. Same problems Here: DELL OPtiPlex GX270 P4 HT Video Intel i865G Effects: Sometimes screen is black, or I get some visual artefacts and no mouse, or reboot, or X restart. Several times a day, at random Tried with: Xorg 6.8.2r6, 6.8.2r4, 7.0 AGP aperture to 32Mo, NO ACPI in kernel, no fbdev support in kernel.... Nota: Sometimes I get Kernel panic at boot too. Actual Config: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -Os -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -Os -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR" LINGUAS="fr" 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 acl alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal i8x0 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod ming mmx mmx2 mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline recode samba sdl slang speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS G Same problems Here: DELL OPtiPlex GX270 P4 HT Video Intel i865G Effects: Sometimes screen is black, or I get some visual artefacts and no mouse, or reboot, or X restart. Several times a day, at random Tried with: Xorg 6.8.2r6, 6.8.2r4, 7.0 AGP aperture to 32Mo, NO ACPI in kernel, no fbdev support in kernel.... Nota: Sometimes I get Kernel panic at boot too. Actual Config: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -Os -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -Os -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR" LINGUAS="fr" 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 acl alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal i8x0 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod ming mmx mmx2 mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline recode samba sdl slang speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS Gérard COLLIN 6.8.2 won't be receiving any more non-security changes, and this bug doesn't apply to 7.0. |