Bug 56316 – Fatal server error: Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 43177
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rafael do N. Pereira 2004-07-07 04:36:38 UTC]

Description:
 Xfree86-4.3.0-r5 and r6 - Fatal Server error: Module load failure

 Reproducable: ALWAYS
 After upgrading from xfree86-4.3.0.-r5 to r6 the following error ocurred:
 (After unmerging r6 and downloading r6 and merging r5 again the same error ocurred.)

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XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.7 i686 [ELF] 
Build Date: 07 July 2004
        Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Jul  7 06:07:51 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
(==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "SyncMaster 753dfx"
(**) |   |-->Device "RivaTNT2"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "abnt2"
(**) XKB: model: "abnt2"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "br"
(**) XKB: layout: "br"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
Using vt 7
(--) using VT number 7

(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) Module ABI versions:
        XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
        XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
        XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
        XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
        XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o
Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a

Fatal server error:
Module load failure


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to [e-mail].

 Steps to Reproduce:

 download xfree-4.3.0-r5
 compile with flags: sse,mmx,3dnow,doc,sdk.
 write /etc/X11/XF86Config
 driver used: nv
 executer startx script or init 5 as root.



My machine:
 Athlon XP 1700+
 768MB DDR333
 Asus A7V8X-X - BIOS rev1009
 RivaTNT2M64 - 32MB
 Gentoo Linux 2004.1 - gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.3
 Linux Kernel-2.6.7

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-07-07 16:50:54 UTC]

Please provide output of `emerge info` -- that will confirm which bug this is a duplicate of, bug #43177 or bug #51342.

[Comment 2 Valmor de Almeida 2004-07-15 07:26:19 UTC]

Here is the output of emerge info on my system with the same problem.


Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups doc encode esd fftw foomaticdb gb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 hardened imagemagick imap imlib jpeg kde lesstif libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mpi mysql ncurses netcdf nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl pic pie plotutils png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-07-15 11:16:42 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43177 ***