From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: After update from xorg v.45 -> v.49.2 vmware-console (GSX server client gui) aborts when starting a VM. The complete X-Server aborts without further interaction. KDM login screen appears again, all previous KDE session data is lost. After downgrade to xorg v.45 everything works as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update xorg to v.49.2 2. startup vmware-console 3. select VM and click on start VM 4. X-server immediately crashes Actual Results: X-server immediately crashes Expected Results: Selected VM screen should be displayed in vmware-console window. Additional info: excerpt from /var/log/messages: gdm[9078]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
excerp from vmware-serverd.log Sep 27 17:20:28: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF Sep 27 17:20:28: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: micki Sep 27 17:20:28: app| VMServerd IPC closed the connection with thread /home/micki/vmware/winxp_office/Windows XP Pro Office.vmx (0x95a5a80) Sep 27 17:20:28: app| Lost connection to /home/micki/vmware/winxp_office/Windows XP Pro Office.vmx (/home/micki/vmware/winxp_office/Windows XP Pro Office.vmx) unexpectedly. Sep 27 17:20:28: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF Sep 27 17:20:28: app| VMHS: Connection to VM broken: cfg: /home/micki/vmware/winxp_office/Windows XP Pro Office.vmx; error: Pipe: Read failed; state: 3 Sep 27 17:20:28: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff. Sep 27 17:20:28: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff. Sep 27 17:20:28: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff. Sep 27 17:20:28: app| cleanup: cleaned up 1 objects
*** Bug 169369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 119308 [details] Xorg.0.log
Could you attach your X server config file for review also please.
Created attachment 119348 [details] xorg.conf
I've reviewed the file attachments, and there is nothing obvious in the log which indicates for sure that there is an X bug causing this problem. This could just as well be a VMware problem, or a kernel interaction problem of some sort. It's also worth noting that we do not officially support systems which have 3rd party kernel modules such as VMware loaded, so unfortunately unless there is a way to reproduce this problem without VMware being installed, there's not a lot we can do. If you believe that it is indeed a legitimate X bug however, you can write to the xorg.org mailing list to discuss the problem and seek technical assistance in diagnosing the issue further. Alternatively VMWare technical support may be able to provide further assistance/support. Setting status to "CANTFIX" (unsupported software installation, without any way to reproduce or diagnose without proprietary 3rd party software)