Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111322
X Server crash, Intel 845G Chipset
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:59 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 Description of problem: New installation of RHEL WS Release 3 (Taroon). The setup probes the video card and correctly identifies the Intel 845G Chipset. The Linux installer comes up fine in graphics mode. startx crashes the X Server. I had a similar problem when previously installing RH 8.0 on this same box. I went to intel website and downloaded the graphics driver for RH linux, which fixed the problem with RH 8.0. I repeated the same thing this time from http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=39&strTypes=DRV%2CARC&ProductID=865&OSFullName=Linux*&submit=Go%21 I downloaded and attempted to install first the rpm, and then the tar file. Each time the build failed. I checked to see if the kernel source was loaded: rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.21-4.EL kernel-utils-2.4-8.37 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13 kernel-source-2.4.21-4.EL So, I'm stuck. I've attached the requested files from the crash dump error message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.startx Actual Results: Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting. ... XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Expected Results: X should have started up. Additional info: uname -rv 2.4.21-4.EL #1 Fri Oct 3 18:13:58 EDT 20003
Created attachment 96274 [details] XFree86.0.log logfile
Created attachment 96275 [details] XF86 Config file
Created attachment 96276 [details] messages file
This driver will not work properly. Use the Red Hat supplied drivers with the instructions from http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html and it should work fine.
Closing as there has not been a reply to comment #4 in many months.
I'm reopening this, as I do not believe the problem discussed in the web page provided in comment #4 is related to the problem being reported in this bug report. An examination of the attached files seems to show the X server dying in the pci bus probing stage, not the video driver. This problem may require direct physical access to the hardware in order to troubleshoot further however. We don't support 3rd party drivers or patches, etc. such as those in comment #4, however we do support the stuff we ship with the OS. Since I don't currently consider this a driver related problem, changing the driver is unlikely to help IMHO. My suggestion, is to restore the OS supplied files if any have been modified, by reinstalling all of the XFree86 rpm packages, then ensure that all updates are applied to the system, so that the latest bugfixes are present. After that, run "redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig", and it should generate a brand new X configuration. Try running "startx" with that, and if it fails, make backup copies of the failed X server log and config file to attach to the bug report. You may want to try the "vesa" driver as well, however this doesn't look driver related to me, so I don't think that will help. It is possible that X doesn't like the PCI bus structure on this machine. That could be a hardware issue, or just a X server limitation which might be fixable. TIA
A closer inspection of the attached log file shows: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux release: 4.3.0-35.EL) ... (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 Note the server is indicating the pcidata module was compiled for XFree86 "4.2.0" here. That is the version we shipped in Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 8.0, but not in RHEL 3. Here is the output from my own local 4.3.0 X server: (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 From this, it seems that your X server installation includes X server modules that are not supplied with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, but were added on from an older OS release or something. Please uninstall any alternative XFree86 installations and/or modules, etc. and reinstall the RHEL supplied X server rpms via up2date. After that, follow the steps in my previous comment and we will get a reliable log/config to investigate further. Thanks in advance.
Since the time this report was filed and last commented on, there have been XFree86 updates which might resolve this issue. Please indicate if this issue is still a problem in the current RHEL update, with all errata applied. If the problem still exists, we will reinvestigate. Thanks in advance.
Setting status to "NEEDINFO", awaiting feedback to comment #9 above.
Closing bug report due to inactivity and lack of response, under the assumption the original reporter can no longer reproduce the issue. If, the problem recurs or persists after updating to the latest official Red Hat Enterprise Linux XFree86 and kernel updates, please log into the official Red Hat support website at http://www.redhat.com/support and register a support ticket in order to receive support for the issue. Alternatively, you can call Red Hat technical support at 1-888-RED-HAT1 to receive technical support as per the terms of your support contract with Red Hat. Thanks for testing. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".