Description of problem: Experiencing lot of crashes a day. Thought it is related to keyboard because of message BOGUS LENGTH in write keyboard desc in Xorg.0.log after crash, therefore tried to use evdev instead kbd keyboard driver, but crashes continue, but with evdev there is a backtrace: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x65) [0x479ca5] 1: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x7f1199d212a0] 2: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x5349fa] 3: /usr/bin/Xorg(ProcXkbGetKbdByName+0x5dd) [0x53becd] 4: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x364) [0x4467f4] 5: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x45d) [0x42cc4d] 6: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfa) [0x7f1199d0d32a] 7: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x281) [0x42c029]
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Created attachment 312561 [details] xorg.conf Had to downgrade the Xorg to F8 version, otherwise machine was unusable. xorg.conf is the same and is attached.
Created attachment 312562 [details] Xorg log from downgraded X server For the moment attaching the log from downgraded X server (fedora 8 version). The message there is the same, but server is not crashing.
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Hello Adam, are you still experiencing this issue? I have been hit by something similar lately and found two upstream reports you may be interested in: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16458 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21464 I'm sorry for Matej treating you this way since you obviously solved the issue by downgrading Fedora components, not NVIDIA. I believe this is an issue in xkb or somewhere else in the Xserver and will try to get it solved.
(In reply to comment #5) > I'm sorry for Matej treating you this way since you obviously solved the issue > by downgrading Fedora components, not NVIDIA. I believe this is an issue in xkb > or somewhere else in the Xserver and will try to get it solved. Just to note, I am not treating NVIDIA binary-only driver users to this treatment for some pathological hatred of proprietary software, I don't think nVidia programmers are stupid, nor I have any commercial reason for this (nor I think nv is the best thing since sliced bread). The problem is that NVIDIA driver changes A LOT of Xorg which is none of driver's business (because they have their own implementation for a lot of non-driver stuff) and not all of those changes work well with the rest of Xorg. We have many many bugs which went away (together with most of the functionality, true) when open source driver were used again and Xorg were cleared to the state we ship. So, yes if you find an issue somewhere else in the free source Xorg, I don't claim it is not possible. However, we don't have time and capability to try to find a bug in the middle of unknown code (unknown for anybody outside of nvidia engineers). Sorry for this.
FYI, a fix for this issue (by Tomas) has been included in Xorg tree. See http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21464 .
Peter, will be push the upstream patch into our F10 Xorg?
Oh, this is F9? I am really afraid, we won't do much with that ... F9 will be EOLed soon anyway, so its users are expected to upgrade.
xorg-x11-server-1.5.3-17.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-server-1.5.3-17.fc10
xorg-x11-server-1.5.2-7.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-server-1.5.2-7.fc9
xorg-x11-server-1.6.1.901-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-server-1.6.1.901-2.fc11
xorg-x11-server-1.5.3-17.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg-x11-server'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-5480
xorg-x11-server-1.5.2-7.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update xorg-x11-server'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-5490
xorg-x11-server-1.6.1.901-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg-x11-server'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-5491
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xorg-x11-server-1.5.3-17.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
xorg-x11-server-1.5.2-7.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Created attachment 348746 [details] xorg hangs or crashes after resume
Dmytro: is that with xorg-x11-server-1.6.1.901-2.fc11?
gah, nevermind, i just saw it in the log. Please try -2 as detailed in Comment #15
The second is much better. I have tried few most reproducible scenarios without any problem.
xorg-x11-server-1.6.2-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-server-1.6.2-1.fc11
xorg-x11-server-1.6.2-3.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-server-1.6.2-3.fc11
xorg-x11-server-1.6.3-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-server-1.6.3-2.fc11
xorg-x11-server-1.6.3-3.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-server-1.6.3-3.fc11
Is it necessary to mention this bug in every single xserver update in F11? Anyway, thanks for the publicity, it's lovely to be in so many updates.
that's done automatically. I think the reason for it is that the updates came before the previous versions were tagged as stable, so the bugs just get moved by bodhi. you can help avoid this by adding to the karma of the package so it reaches the required threshold for stable.
I am having this same problem with my FC11 system and all the current updates. Is there an updated version that doesn't suffer from the problem? I either get a crash or a hang when the problem happens.