Description of problem: I clicked on the Blender icon and X crashed. Blender never attempted to open. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): blender-2.41-3.fc5 How reproducible: Click the Blender Icon under Graphics > Blender Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: X crashed and brought me back to the login screen Expected results: Blender app working. Additional info: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x87) [0x80b86c7] 1: [0x8f4420] 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so(__glXDeassociateContext+0x19) [0x571bd9] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so [0x570a22] 4: /usr/bin/Xorg(FreeClientResources+0x85) [0x8071755] 5: /usr/bin/Xorg(CloseDownClient+0x1b4) [0x8082424] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x2bb) [0x8088a0b] 7: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x487) [0x80701d7] 8: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x92b7e4] 9: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xb1) [0x806f511] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting
I am seeing something similar. Any time I open anything 3d, x crashes. My system is an intel Pentium D with nvidia GeForce 6200 pcie card driving two samsung 790df monitors in dual head mode, though it does the same thing in single head mode.
forgot to mention, I am using the Nvidia drivers from livna
Original reporter only: Please attach your X server log and config file as individual uncompressed file attachments.
Mike, We found the problem. The problem is that nvidia-installer replaces /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so with a symbolic link which points to libglx.so.1.0.8178 (or whatever version of Nvidia's libglx.so has been installed). Since there is a real shared library named /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so which belongs to the xorg-x11-server-Xorg package, if this package is updated, Nvidia's libglx.so will get replaced, leaving one in place that the nvidia module doesn't work correctly with. So probably just about anything done by the nvidia module within the X session that makes function calls to libglx.so causes the X server to crash. (that's been our experience anyway). So the first solution I found is to "reinstall" nvidia's driver kit. The important thing, however, is getting nvidia's libglx.so.1.0.<version-whatever> back in play. Assuming the current Nvidia libglx.so.1.0.<version-whatever> shared library still exists in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/, just moving the libglx.so owned by xorg-x11-server-Xorg to another filename and re-symlinking libglx.so.1.0.<version-whatever> to libglx.so should have been good enough too. For example: # cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions # mv libglx.so libglx.so.Xorg # ln -s libglx.so.1.0.8178 libglx.so All is working well now with Blender as well as anything else GL-related on both systems here. Mike if you still want to get a crashed X server log and the xorg.conf from Linda to have something to refer back to, let us know and we'll recreate the problem environment and get you one as soon as she gets to a stopping point on her current documentation project. Thanks, vince
We do not support Nvidia's proprietary drivers, or systems which have the driver installed, even if the user is using the Red Hat supplied driver. The reason for this, is that Nvidia's installer blows away Red Hat supplied operating system files as you have just discovered, thus making the system completely unsupportable. Anyone who has installed the Nvidia proprietary driver, and is experiencing any problems at all, even if they are using the "nv" driver supplied by Red Hat, should not report a bug in Red Hat bugzilla, unless the problem can be reproduced on a fresh operating system install which has been updated to the latest Fedora released updates, and which does not have any any 3rd party driver modules installed. Here is some additional information which may be useful for people experiencing problems with, or related to using Nvidia's proprietary drivers: For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may also find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo Setting status to "CANTFIX" (unsupported).