Bug 146772 – X11 sometimes crashes on startup

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Michael Labhard 2006-09-07 19:06:41 UTC]

This happens to me about 50% of the time when I start X11 with "startx":

Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
SetClientVersion: 0 9

   *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
   *** be the reason for the server aborting.

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x94) [0x478a64]
1: /lib/tls/libc.so.6 [0x2b3f5c4487f0]
2: X(PanoramiXGetGeometry+0xf7) [0x4ec807]
3: X(Dispatch+0x1b1) [0x44a561]
4: X(main+0x476) [0x432b06]
5: /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe4) [0x2b3f5c436644]
6: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa2) [0x4320ea]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

(II) Screen 0 shares mem & io resources
(II) Screen 1 shares mem & io resources


emerge --info:

Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/resin/conf /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/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /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/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/opt/no_archive/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.llarian.net/ ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/opt/no_archive/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt cups dlloader doc dri eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde libg++ log4cpp lzw lzw-tiff mozilla mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ntpl-only opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png postgres pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb wxwindows xinerama xorg xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-09-08 06:37:16 UTC]

Please attach your xorg.conf.

[Comment 2 Michael Labhard 2006-09-08 22:11:25 UTC]

Created attachment 96454 [details]
xorg.conf

[Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-09-24 10:26:20 UTC]

Can you reproduce this issue with the 'nv' driver?

Also, I recommend you give xorg-x11 7.1 a try.  Add xorg-x11, xorg-server, mesa, mesa-progs and the relevant drivers to /etc/portage/package.keywords to unmask from testing.

Re-open the bug once you've tried these things.