From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Epiphany/1.2.0 Description of problem: This problem is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110454#c18 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. startx 2. Icons, AA fonts, mouse cursor are crushed. 3. Additional info:
This problem does not happen in kernel-2.6.3-1.118.
Hi Sangu, From your above report, it isn't quite clear to me what the problem was that you are reporting above. Our kernel people assumed you were trying to report an X issue mistakenly against the kernel, however it isn't really clear what the issue is. I'm going to close this issue as "RAWHIDE" for now, as you've indicated in comment #1 above that the problem no longer occurs for you. As an additional note/request: When reporting bugs in bugzilla, it helps us out a lot if you can explain the problem in full detail as clearly as possible, and directly in the bug report rather than a URL to another bug report. It also makes it easier to track and follow the defect. If the problem happens for you again, please open a new bug report with current details and we'll try to investigate the issue. Thanks for your update that the problem no longer happens with the new kernel, and also for testing FC2 test2! Take care, Mike
Created attachment 98953 [details] XFree86.0.log in FC2 tes2 kernel-2.9.3-2.1-253.2.1 Kernel-2.9.3-1.118 is old version in comment #1 Kernel-2.9.3-2.1-253.2.1 is FC2 tes2 kernel. This problem is not fixed. This problem happens in FC2 tes2 kernel-2.9.3-2.1-253.2.1. This problem happens in ajanv's kernels(http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/),too. When XF86Config has Option "UseBIOS" "FALSE", "(EE) SAVAGE(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 11" messages disappear in XFree86.0.log. But this problem( AA font, icon and mouse cursor are crushed) doesn't diappear. Thank your comments.
The vm86 syscall error message sounds like a kernel bug which should be filed in a separate bug report, which may or may not be related to the problem you are having. vm86 is used by the X server to execute the video BIOS code. If this fails, it generally means one of two things: 1) The video BIOS is buggy. If this is the case, then there is not anything we can do to fix a buggy BIOS other than to recommend contacting your hardware vendor for an update. or 2) The kernel vm86 code, or something else in the kernel is broken which may impede the X server's access to the video BIOS. Since the X server executes the BIOS code, this may show up as the X server SEGV'ing, however it is not the X server's code at fault. If this worked with previous kernels ok, or 2.4.x, then IMHO, the most likely scenario is that #2 above. It is also possible that there is an obscure X server bug here, but I believe it is unlikely. Again though, the vm86() issue is a totally separate issue and should be reported in a separate bug report so we can track it. I assume the kernel versions you have supplied above contain typographical errors, since there is no kernel version 2.9.3. I do not want to make version assumptions however, as I could assume wrong. Just in case there are other typos as well, can you cut and paste the exact kernel version from the output of "uname -a" into the report? Please attach your X server log file, config file, and /var/log/messages from the time the computer was booted onward, from an X session which the font/mouse cursor problem occurs. This information will be useful in our diagnosis. Thanks again for the update, and for reporting the problems. Take care, TTYL (Setting bug back to REOPENED state)
Created attachment 98963 [details] XF86Config file
Created attachment 98964 [details] XFree86.0.log in kernel 2.6.3-1.118 uname -a Linux boys 2.6.3-1.118 #1 Mon Mar 1 17:36:45 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This problem (AA font, icon and mouse cursor are crushed) doesn't happen from RedHat 9 kernel packages to fedora core 1 kernel packages. As see : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110454 , this problem always doesn't happen in kernel-2.6.x package.
Please see : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110454#c40