Bug 134289
Summary: | xscreensaver crashes X | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Carlos Rodrigues <cefrodrigues> |
Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 2 | CC: | rstrode |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | athlon | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2005-03-06 23:48:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Carlos Rodrigues
2004-09-30 23:11:47 UTC
Hi Carlos, Do you use GL screensavers? This sounds like an X issue, so I'm going to reassign it. I have xscreensaver in random mode, but I'm not sure that this happens only with GL screensavers (I let the screensaver kick in 3 times and X crashed on all 3), but when I try to run any GL app, X crashes with a twitch, the screen turns black and sometimes I can see by numlock flashing that I can change to a virtual console (vesafb), but most times the machine just freezes hard. I'm using the nvidia drivers (please don't kill me :) ) but I doubt that they are to blame, these are the first crashes that I have seen with X since I have this machine (2 years) and I have been using them from the very beginning (3 months for the currently installed version). Hmmm, I guess I figured out what's the problem. I rolled back xorg to the version I had installed and... the problem persisted. I reinstalled the nvidia drivers, the problem went away. Well, I decided to upgrade again and see what was borking the drivers. nvidia-installer complained that the libGL.so symlink was pointing nowhere, and in fact, the upgrade has put it pointing to an unexisting library (maybe the one that comes with mesa, I didn't check and I don't have the xorg mesa package installed). By this time I was already pointing the finger at xorg for messing with the symlinks for no good reason. I fixed the symlink and rebooted (just to make sure) and it didn't fix it, but reinstalling the drivers did the job. In the end, I don't really know who to blame. "nvidia-installer --sanity" does not complain about anything else than the libGL symlink (which xorg wrongly breaks) but it still requires a reinstall to work. I will not close this bug because the symlink thing is still a bug in the xorg package (IMHO), but the rest I guess can't be pointed at xorg for lack of information. Thanks for the report. For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may also find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo Setting status to "NOTABUG" (unsupported). I'm aware the nvidia drivers are unsupported. I just didn't close the bug because of the symlink issue. The xorg packages shouldn't mess with the libGL symlink because they are not providing libGL. Only the "mesa" packages should do that. |