From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-1.3.1 Description of problem: Some OpenGL 3D games like lsdldoom or q3demo crash upon starting with "Segmentation Fault" when the kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3 default value (2) of /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield is set. $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield solves the problem. (Graphic driver: kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.35_FC3-1.0.7664-0.lvn.1.3 CPU: AMD Athlon) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.cd /usr/local/games/doom 2../lsdldoom 3. Actual Results: ... Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) Expected Results: start the application Additional info: The information of the exec-shield should be emphasized. It is extremely tough task find the reason why many applications are dead after upgrade of the kernel.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.