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Bug 104493 - Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 crashes my whole Alpha machine.
Summary: Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 crashes my whole Alpha machine.
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: Alpha Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
URL: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug...
Whiteboard:
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-09-01 08:49 UTC by Laurens Vets
Modified: 2005-09-03 08:05 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
xorg.conf file (xorg.conf,14.13 KB, text/plain)
2005-09-01 08:51 UTC, Laurens Vets
Details
Xorg.0.log file (Xorg.0.log,10.03 KB, text/plain)
2005-09-01 08:51 UTC, Laurens Vets
Details

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Description Laurens Vets 2005-09-01 08:49:06 UTC
I've emerged Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2.  However, when I try to run it, it takes my
whole alpha machine down.  I believe the settings in Xorg.conf are be ok.
Ferdy suggested to file a bug report.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge xorg-x11
2. configure X
3. startx

Actual Results:  
My monitor goes blank, it doesn't power down though.  When I do this while
connected via ssh to the machine, I loose my connection after a couple of
seconds.  After that, the machine doesn't responds to ICMP echo requests either...

Expected Results:  
Start and run X :)

Hardware:
Digital Personal Workstation 500a.  384 MB RAM.  S3 Trio64.

/proc/pci:
  Bus  1, device   8, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c775/86c785 [Trio 64V2/DX or /GX] (rev 20).
      IRQ 36.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc000000 [0xfffffff].

Emerge info:
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/alpha/2005.0, gcc-3.3.2,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.8 alpha)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11.8 alpha EV56
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
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
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe"
CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.be.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="alpha X arts berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds encode esd font-server
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++
libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib
perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 1 Laurens Vets 2005-09-01 08:51:23 UTC
Created attachment 67420 [details]
xorg.conf file
Comment 2 Laurens Vets 2005-09-01 08:51:45 UTC
Created attachment 67421 [details]
Xorg.0.log file
Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-01 19:05:36 UTC
I'll wait for alpha to comment on this as well, but try using the vga driver
instead of vesa.

It looks like vesa support was just enabled in -r2, so the driver probably
wasn't doing anything until the recent update.
Comment 4 Laurens Vets 2005-09-02 12:34:38 UTC
Replaced "vesa" by "vga" in my xorg.conf file.  Didn't help though...
Comment 5 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-02 13:28:07 UTC
It would be helpful if you could try some of the masked versions of xorg-x11 in
the tree (6.8.99.x).  If any those cause issue this is an upstream bug.
Comment 6 Laurens Vets 2005-09-03 07:02:14 UTC
I unmerged Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 and emerged xorg-x11-6.8.99.15.  Results are the 
same with both the vesa and the vga driver... 
Comment 7 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-03 07:18:25 UTC
That's not good.  :P

Post a bug up at https://bugs.freedesktop.org and drop the URL here when you do.
 For the time being you'll just have to use 6.8.2-r1 or something.  This seems
to be a unique case as we've had no other issues with alpha so far (that I'm
aware of).
Comment 8 Laurens Vets 2005-09-03 08:02:19 UTC
Done, relevant URL: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4344
Comment 9 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-03 08:05:42 UTC
Thanks for the quick replies :)

If you're feeling gutsy you could try out the modular build. You'll need to look
at the dev mailing list for information on how to get it working.  Modular is
marked -alpha so no promises.