Bug 240482 – x11-wm/awesome-3.0 does not start due to segfault

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Alexander Graf 2008-10-08 09:51:37 UTC]

Everytime, I try to start awesome, it fails with a segmentation fault, and the following is written into dmesg:
awesome[5379]: segfault at 18 ip 7fa490ddb334 sp 7fff99203b58 error 4 in libxcb.so.1.0.0[7fa490dcd000+1c000]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start awesome
Actual Results:  
segmentation fault

Expected Results:  
act as a window manager

emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25.9 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.25.9 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:30:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --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="X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amrnb amrwb arts berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus debugger dga dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo extra fam firefox fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm graphics graphviz gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jack jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos ladspa laptop latex libnotify lzo mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp2 mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd pstricks python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc samba science sdl session speex spl srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification statistics svg symlink sysfs tcpd tiff truetype usb v4l2 vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi x264 xanim xcb xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

emerge -pv libxcb awesome:
[ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/libxcb-1.1.90.1  USE="-debug -doc (-selinux)" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] x11-wm/awesome-3.0  USE="dbus imlib -doc" 0 kB

[Comment 1 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) 2008-10-14 00:11:05 UTC]

awesome-3.0-r1 in cvs. please try it.

[Comment 2 Uli Schlachter 2008-10-20 09:30:42 UTC]

Are you trying to run awesome in an Xnest?
According to upstream's irc channel, awesome-3 always segfaulted when ran in an Xnest. No fix known.

[Comment 3 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) 2009-04-12 04:25:50 UTC]

no response. if you still has the issue, reopen this bug.