After upgrading to x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 several applications started to give errors or significantly slowed down. 1) epiphany, firefox, evolution became very slow, sometimes freezing for some seconds. 2) gnome session: crashes (logs me out) if the webcam is launched by "cheese" or "skype" 3) xrandr: on boot screen resolution is not anymore properly recognised for the login-screen. The behavior for the gnome session is correct unless I click on System -> Appearance Preferences menu. In such a case all screen fonts are significantly magnified even though the menu does not report it. I /var/log/messafes and .xsession-errors report some errors but I could not nail them down to any specific bug. Thank for your help. Reproducible: Always emerge --info report: Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P9400_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:45:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="candy ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ing.umu.se/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ing.umu.se/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ds.karen.hj.se/gentoo/ http://ftp.ds.karen.hj.se/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.mdfnet.se/gentoo/ http://mirror.mdfnet.se/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LANG="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dell dri dts emacs encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gcj gdbm gnome gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k laptop ldap lm_sensors mad mjpeg mmap mmx modules mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pmu png pppd python quicktime readline reflection session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcl tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype unicode wmf xine xinerama xinetd xorg xprint xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" 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 mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS More info on the system: http://www.math.helsinki.fi/mathphys/paolo_files/gentoo-gigio.html /var/log/messages error report Oct 5 18:21:41 gigio gdm[8767]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Oct 5 18:21:41 gigio gdm[8767]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session closed for use r paolo Oct 5 18:21:42 gigio acpid: client 8784[0:0] has disconnected Oct 5 18:21:42 gigio acpid: client connected from 9066[0:0] Oct 5 18:21:42 gigio acpid: 1 client rule loaded Oct 5 18:21:42 gigio [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 Oct 5 18:21:46 gigio (paolo-9080): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-MCF3KH06Wp: Connection refused Oct 5 18:21:53 gigio gdm[9055]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session opened for use r paolo by (uid=0) Oct 5 18:21:53 gigio gdm[9055]: gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup keyring component setting: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible caus es are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch f ailed to autolaunch D-Bus session: No protocol specified Oct 5 18:21:53 gigio gdm[9055]: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. Oct 5 18:21:53 gigio gdm[9055]: )gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup ssh co mponent setting: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: No protocol specified Oct 5 18:21:53 gigio gdm[9055]: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. Oct 5 18:21:53 gigio gdm[9055]: )gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup pkcs11 component setting: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: No protocol specified Oct 5 18:21:53 gigio gdm[9055]: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. Oct 5 18:21:53 gigio gdm[9055]: ) Oct 5 18:21:56 gigio pulseaudio[9187]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Oct 5 18:21:56 gigio pulseaudio[9187]: udev-util.c: Failed to get card object. Oct 5 18:21:57 gigio NetworkManager: <info> Updating allowed wireless network lists. Oct 5 18:21:57 gigio pulseaudio[9187]: udev-util.c: Failed to get card object. Oct 5 18:21:57 gigio pulseaudio[9187]: udev-util.c: Failed to get card object Oct 5 18:21:57 gigio pulseaudio[9187]: bluetooth-util.c: Error from ListAdapters reply: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown Oct 5 18:21:57 gigio pulseaudio[9214]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Oct 5 18:21:57 gigio pulseaudio[9187]: module-x11-xsmp.c: module-x11-xsmp may no be loaded twice. Oct 5 18:21:57 gigio pulseaudio[9187]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: "display=:0.0 session_manager=local/gigio:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/9114,unix/gigio:/tmp/.ICE-unix/9114"): initialization failed. .xsession-errors reports /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: gnome-session SESSION_MANAGER=local/gigio:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/9114,unix/gigio:/tmp/.ICE-unix/911 4 1254756114.179115 Session manager: disconnected... 1254756114.191986 Session manager: disconnected... Unknown option --singleton ** Message: Initializing gksu extension... Failed to play sound: Sound disabled ** (nm-applet:9182): WARNING **: <WARN> hal_net_physdev_cb(): dbus returned a n error. (org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty) No property net.physical_device on devi ce with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_21_6a_0c_85_c8 ** (nm-applet:9182): WARNING **: <WARN> hal_net_physdev_cb(): dbus returned a n error. (org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty) No property net.physical_device on devi ce with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_21_70_ea_e3_5a ** (nm-applet:9182): WARNING **: <WARN> hal_net_physdev_cb(): dbus returned a n error. (org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty) No property net.physical_device on devi ce with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_21_70_ea_e3_5a evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Setting timeout for 20283 1254776400 1254756117 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Tue Oct 6 00:00:00 2009 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Mon Oct 5 18:21:57 2009 ** Message: failed to load session from /home/paolo/.nautilus/saved-session-3LFDRU Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox-2.0.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory 18 (gnome-panel:9169): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkdrawable-x11.c:878 drawable is not a pixmap or window Failure: Module initalization failed ** (nautilus:9168): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported (gnome-appearance-properties:10003): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "hcengine", (gnome-appearance-properties:10003): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "hcengine", dmesg: [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 0000:00:19.0: eth0: Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None 0000:00:19.0: eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 cheese[5793]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f654 sp 00007fff8068c430 error 4 in cheese[400000+25000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
Please attach logs next time.
Please attach Xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log
Please use a _much_ newer kernel with the kernel Intel driver built-in. Thanks
(In reply to comment #3) > Please use a _much_ newer kernel with the kernel Intel driver built-in. > > Thanks > I confirm that the problems were kernel related and disappeared after upgrade to 2.6.30-r5. Thanks to all for the quick help!