From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040301 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-67.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install the attached /etc/X11/XF86Config on fenlason-desk.boston.redhat.com 2.run xinit 3. Actual Results: All monitors go black. X does not start. System must be rebooted remotely. Expected Results: X should start up. Additional info:
Created attachment 102268 [details] XF86Config that causes failure.
Created attachment 102269 [details] Crashed server log
You MUST have "Screen n" keywords in every single device section in multihead configurations. Your X server is misconfigured. There may or may not be additional problems once the X server is configured properly. Please correct this and provide a status update. Note: our config tools do not properly configure xinerama or other multihead. You must configure it manually.
The problem reported here is due to X server config file misconfiguration. While it is true that the X server should not crash even if it is misconfigured, such a crash is a corner case which is not something that would work even if the server were fixed to not crash under this misconfiguration. As such, the server crash is a low impact bug that doesn't affect normal supported X server usage. Please refer to the X server documentation for assistance in configuring triple head setup, as our tools do not support configuring such setups currently. Closing bug "NOTABUG".