Summary: | xorg-server 1.1.0: xorg.conf search path appears to be wrong | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Phil Richards <news> |
Component: | [OLD] Server | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | trivial | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2006.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Phil Richards
2006-06-05 07:03:22 UTC
Could you attach your (preferably non-working) xorg.conf and Xorg.n.log please? Ok, having tried to reproduce the problem, and failed, I've worked out what was happening. The reason why it failed was that root had a copy of xorg.conf in ~/xorg.conf. The ModulePath thing was bogus (and looking at the ebuild I can see that ModulePath is filtered out of /etc/X11/xorg.conf - but obviously not ~root/xorg.conf). The ~root/xorg.conf appears to be used in preference to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and I suspect that it had a ModulePath line pointing at /usr/X11R6 from some previous incarnation of the server - I can't be sure because as part of the process of trying to get my server up and running again I vaguelly remember stumbling across it and deleting it (thinking "what is that doing there?"). I can't say I remember creating ~root/xorg.conf recently, and I don't know why it suddenly stopped working going from 1.0.x to 1.1.0, but... I'm closing the bug as INVALID because I don't think it is one (not as raised, anyway). Whether the /etc/init.d/xdm using ~root/xorg.conf in preference to /etc/X11/xorg.conf is a bug is questionable. Sorry for wasting your time :-) Phil (In reply to comment #2) > I can't say I remember creating ~root/xorg.conf recently, and I don't know why > it suddenly stopped working going from 1.0.x to 1.1.0, but... You probably didn't, your configuration tool did. Well, it is most likely when I was setting things up, but I tend to hand edit all my config files, so the blame probably lies with me :-) Anyway, looking at the man page for xorg.conf, I think that there *is* a problem; see also bug #133277, and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6915, so I feel slightly less dumb now :-) |