Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 212810
system-config-display crashes during startup
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:46 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061011 Fedora/1.5.0.7-7.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.7 Description of problem: Crash during startup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-display-1.0.45-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start system-config-display from shell 2. 3. Actual Results: # system-config-display Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 311, in ? hardware_state = XF86HardwareState(xconfig) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rhpxl/xhwstate.py", line 177, in __init__ self.init_from_xconfig(xconfig) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rhpxl/xhwstate.py", line 296, in init_from_xconfig self.all_resolutions.sort (compare_resolution) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rhpxl/xhwstate.py", line 60, in compare_resolution (w1, h1) = resolution_from_string(res1) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rhpxl/xhwstate.py", line 50, in resolution_from_string return (string.atoi(w), string.atoi(h)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/string.py", line 403, in atoi return _int(s, base) ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 864_85 Expected Results: Additional info: The same error appears with -noui switch. Related packages: rhpxl-0.39-2 python-2.4.4-1.fc6
I believe that the reason for this problem is that system-config-display parses the xorg.conf file and has a bug when it comes to parsing modeline entries. For example I had this modeline: Modeline "1400x1050A" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync in my Monitor section, and in my Screen section's Display sub-section I had: Modes "1400x1050A" The problem is that system-config-display _assumes_ that a mode name is of the form "<int>x<int>". My solution was to rename my mode to "1400x1050" and change it in both places. After that system-config-display worked correctly.
The only such a thing I can see are specified frequencies for some modes like "1024x768_85" etc. It should really be related.
This should be fixed in rhpxl 0.44.