Bug 815427

Summary: xrandr locks up Xorg (CPU ~ 100%)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: xgl-maint
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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 01:10:55 UTC Type: Bug
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Xorg.0.log (no xorg.conf file)
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Xorg.0.log (no xorg.conf file)
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smolt profile
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dmesg w/ drm.debug=14 log_buf_len=16M none

Description Grant Goodyear 2012-04-23 15:20:43 UTC 
Description of problem:

On friday I upgraded my system to Fedora 17 using preupgrade.  When logging into gnome3, the system freezes: the mouse cursor is suddenly pinned on the left side of the screen, top shows Xorg as taking just under 100% of the CPU, and login fails to progress.  I have to remotely  "killall -9 Xorg" to return to the login screen.  The gdm login screen does seem to be responsive, though, so Xorg isn't entirely broken.

I also have notion (the current incarnation of the ion3 WM) on this machine, and I couldn't log into a notion session, either.  I could log into a fluxbox session, however.  I started commenting out lines in my .xsession file (that I use to log into notion), and I found that the line causing the problem is:

   xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of VGA-0

Once I commented out that line, I could log into a notion session just fine.  My gnome3 session also has the monitors "switched", and I assume that gnome3 uses xrandr to do that at startup, which is why I couldn't log into gnome3 either.

I've no idea if the problem is xorg, xrandr, or the radeon driver I'm using.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-server-utils-7.5-12.fc17.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.14.4-5.20120417git0bda305f7.fc17.x86_64



How reproducible:

Locks up every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of VGA-0
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Actual results:

100% CPU usage, Xorg locks up, mouse cursor pinned to left side of screen.


Expected results:

None of the above.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Grant Goodyear 2012-04-23 15:22:00 UTC 
Created attachment 579596 [details]
Xorg.0.log (no xorg.conf file)
Comment 2 Grant Goodyear 2012-04-23 15:29:24 UTC 
Created attachment 579599 [details]
Xorg.0.log (no xorg.conf file)
Comment 3 Grant Goodyear 2012-04-23 15:30:14 UTC 
Created attachment 579605 [details]
smolt profile
Comment 4 Grant Goodyear 2012-04-23 15:42:14 UTC 
Created attachment 579622 [details]
dmesg w/ drm.debug=14 log_buf_len=16M
Comment 5 Grant Goodyear 2012-04-23 15:45:20 UTC 
Booting w/ "nomodeset" breaks xrandr (as far as I can tell), so I can't test w/ nomodeset on the boot line.
Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2012-04-26 14:41:10 UTC 
Probably a radeon driver bug (either userspace or kernel).
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