Bug 127782
| Summary: | Following update xorg to 6.7.0-5 PC crashes at Gnome and KDE start | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | arie spieker <arie.spieker> |
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-02 05:39:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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We do not support proprietary drivers. While nothing has changed in X, and X is unlikely to be the cause of your problem, any time you upgrade your kernel, you will have this problem as you then no longer have a proprietary kernel module linked against the new kernel, so your "nvidia" driver wont work anymore until you reinstall it or relink it. That is outside the scope of what Red Hat provides support for however. Nvidia has web forums if you require assistance in getting their driver to work with any particular kernel and/or X server release. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73733 *** I am not sure this bug is a duplicate of 73733. I know from experience the behaviour of my PC as a result of "incompatability of nvidia drivers with the kernel" : upon the command startx, the system crashes promptly. The reported bug behaviour is however different : X-windows starts as expected, both GNOME and KDE start including the graphical display as expected. However before the completion of the start of f.e. KDE, the PC crashes when KDE has arrived at the screen icon in the KDE screen. Also, if it would have been an nvidia/kernel related problem, than rolling back from the latest till the previous version of Xorg, would not have solved the problem (I feel). Please note, that I am using the latest nvidia driver (6101), which according to nvidia is fully compatibel with the FC2 kernel (including 4KSTACK etc.) Are you sure the latest xorg rpms are beyond any doubt ? Bug #73733 is our catch all master duplicate bug report for all problems that are reported in bugzilla by users using the unsupported Nvidia proprietary drivers. The exact nature and extent of the problem isn't significant per se, as the "duplicate" is with reference to being unsupported rather than the specific user technical support problem. Additionally, bugzilla is not intended for technical support problems, just bug tracking, and only for system configurations which we support. If you require support in resolving this problem, you may find the Nvidia web forums, or various Red Hat or X related mailing lists to be helpful. >Are you sure the latest xorg rpms are beyond any doubt ? Very, however there is always a chance that anything could be at fault for a given problem. Once the problem is reported to Nvidia, if Nvidia engineers discover that the true nature of the problem is not driver misinstallation, misconfiguration, or other incompatibilities, they can report any X.Org problems that they discover to the X.Org bugzilla at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org Assuming X.Org developers agree that Nvidia (or someone else) has found a legitimate bug in X.Org, even if it only occurs with the Nvidia drivers, the issue will be accepted as a legitimate bug and investigated upstream. It is very rare that this is the case however. An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-417.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: Following the update from xorg-x11-6.7.0-2 to xorg-x11-6.7.0-5, (as well as xauth, twm, Mesa-libGL, Mesa-libGLU, devel, libs-data, tools, libs, base-fonts, 100dpi-fonts, 75dpi-fonts, truetype-fonts, font-utils, xfs and xdm), PC succesfully started X-windows. However both during startup of Gnome, as well as KDE (after the sound), the PC crashed, and responded only to the big button. The first time this happened, the system tried three times in succession to restart X-Windows. The result wa s ablack screen, and the info that something very bad had happened. I am using FC2 on a pentium III 450 MHz with nvidia Geforce card and 6101 driver. kernel version 2.6-435-2.3. Before the update it all worked fine...... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.7.0-5 etc (16 files as indicated by up2date ) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Restarting the computer was only succesfull at runlevel 3 2. any attempt to get at level 5 (startx) resulted in a hard crash during the startup of either KDE or GNOME. 3.In the case of KDE the crash happened when KDE arrived at the videoscreen in the KDE screen. Actual Results: see above Expected Results: succesfull startup of GNOME or KDE as the case maybe Additional info: After rollback to the older versions of the files indicated above, the problem disappered. By the way, I tool the older versions from the FC2 disks. The new versions (as indicated above) were provided by up2date.