Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 118901
Xfree86 Crashes on Logout
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:38 EST
Description of problem: My setup is a Pentium4 w/ an NVidia GeForceFX 5200 Dual monitor card w/ 2 VGA monitors attached. I'm starting X via startx from the command line. Attempting to log out always results in a crash. The most relevant error message seems to be: The program 'gnome-session' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 1242 error_code 8 request_code 1 minor_code 0) I've attached a log of the startx command as well as my XF86Config and XFree86.0.log files. This has been happening for a while. I upgraded to gnome-session 2.4.2-1 from 2.4.0-1 to see if this would solve the problem: it didn't. Relevant install packages: XFree86-4.3.0-55 gnome-panel-2.4.2-3 gnome-session-2.4.2-1 kernel-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl nvidia driver 1.0-5336 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-55 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start X with startx (I'm using gnome) 2.Chose "Log Out" from the hat menu Actual Results: X Crashes and I'm thrown to the bash command line. An error message (described above) is displayed. Expected Results: The screen should dim and the Log out Dialog box should appear
Created attachment 98749 [details] Log of the X Crash (output from startx)
Created attachment 98750 [details] Xfree86.0.log
Created attachment 98751 [details] My XF86Config file
You are using custom built XFree86 packages on your system rather than the ones that Red Hat provides. Red Hat does not support user recompiled packages. Also, your system is using 3rd party kernel modules, which Red Hat also does not support. Please remove the custom built XFree86 packages, and reinstall the binary rpms supplied by Red Hat, then disable all 3rd party kernel modules from loading at or after boot time, and reboot your system. Once the system has been rebooted cleanly without loading any 3rd party kernel modules, if you are able to reproduce this problem using the Red Hat supplied packages, please feel free to attach the X server log and config file from the new X session, as well as your /var/log/messages file containing all boot messages since the system was booted. Also attach the output of "lsmod" and "lspci -vvn". Closing as "NOTABUG" for now, as we do not support systems using 3rd party kernel modules or recompiled system packages like XFree86.