Bug 39464
| Summary: | Starting new programs doesn't work, running programs keep working OK | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <ben.verloop> | ||||||||
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | alane | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-02-11 13:53:41 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
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Created attachment 17586 [details]
The /var/log/messages file might be usefull
Created attachment 17587 [details]
up2date log, error occured both before and after updating (I rebooted after updating)
This is likely a local configuration problem of some kind I believe, perhaps a conflict with some software you are using. Attach your XFree86 server log from after you've had a problem. Also, your XF86Config-4 file. Also, if you boot graphical login, change to a non graphical login by changing: initdefault:5 to initdefault:3 in /etc/inittab, then reboot. Start X with: startx > X.log 2>&1 Then wait until you experience the problem, then kill X, start it up again with just "startx" and attach the X.log file to the bug report. Interesting. I've been seeing similar behavior. At first I thought it was KDE
2.2alpha fscking up in strange and wondrous ways. But ...
If you strace one of the clients, you see that it sends the "MAGIC-COOKIE"
message to X, it gets back its response, and then, next read, it gets an EOF
on the socket to X. This condition does not always seem to be permanent; it
sometimes spontaeously reverts to working behavior.
I just saw another message tonight, from Xv, that prompted me to come here and
look:
XIO: fatal IO error 105 (No buffer space available) on X server ":0.0"
after 1330041 requests (1323083 known processed) with 743 events
remaining.
Ouch. Nothing looks terribly interesting in the log, but will be attached
after this comment is added.
Created attachment 20392 [details]
X server log gzipped
Ooh. This is unsavory. I've got *thousands* of these in my /var/log/messages over the last couple of hours: Jun 5 22:09:34 wwweasel kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. Jun 5 22:09:34 wwweasel kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. Jun 5 22:09:34 wwweasel kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. Jun 5 22:09:34 wwweasel kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. Jun 5 22:09:34 wwweasel kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. This can't be good, huh? Ben.Verloop, please attach X server log and config file uncompressed as file attachments using bugzilla's link below. Closing bug. Please reopen after attaching requested information if problem persists. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: I am not sure if this is a XFree bug. I am running on a 266Mhz Pentium II MMX laptop with 128Mb memory. After a few minutes running gnome or KDE I cannot start any new programs anymore. I can click whatever I want, no new windows (for the programs start) appear. The Gnome menu ('start button') does work. The mouse moves OK. Already running programs respond OK. How reproducible: Always (for me) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot 2. Start window manager, gnome or KDE 3. Start a program, e.g. Netscape 4. Browse around. 5. After a few minutes, try to start a program, e.g. a new terminal (emulation program) Actual Results: The terminal emulation program doesn't start Expected Results: Program should start Additional info: The same error occurs in both Gnome and KDE. I think this is a high severity error because the laptop is unusable until reboot.