Bug 237091

Summary:	mesa-7.1 merged before xorg-server-1.5, caused DRI to fail which caused gdm to not start
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joshua Roys <roysjosh>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	jer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joshua Roys 2008-09-08 19:23:16 UTC

I noticed xorg-server-1.5 in ~x86 this morning and upgraded to it, which resulted in an emerge looking like:

libdrm-2.3.1
... (other packages)
mesa-7.1
... (other packages)
xorg-server-1.5

After this I had to re-emerge xf86-video-i810 which wasn't being loaded by X because of a missing symbol.

After that, gdm would fail to start with no apparent error message.  After shooting in the dark for a while I noticed that if I disabled DRI in xorg.conf gdm would start - so I re-emerged all dri-related things (and perhaps some that weren't... gdm, xf86driproto, dri2proto, xf86vidmodeproto, xf86miscproto, xf86-video-i810, libXxf86misc), ending with mesa which finally let gdm start.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-08 22:48:48 UTC

You should re-enable DRI if you haven't do so already.

For some reason, Intel machines needs to be restarted after updating xorg, the driver must have some weird bit-banging issues.

If DRI still doesn't work, please don't hesitate to reopen this bug.

Thanks

Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-08 23:09:50 UTC

Mesa has to come before xorg-server. It might be affected by version changes in some of the X libraries and protocol headers, though. I'll update all the library and proto dependencies in Mesa to pull in the latest versions.