From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I first upgraded to roswell from seawolf, install in graphic mode went fine, but after that, when I tried to startx, the screen freezes and so do the mouse and keyboard. I can only connect via other computer and perform (sometimes) a reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install or upgrade to roswell 2. type "startx" (after configuring with XConfigurator, of course). 3. Have fun by looking at the freezed screen. Actual Results: System freezes. Expected Results: Be happy using my graphical environment. Additional info: I don't know if it's related to bug #50945, but I haven't been able to use graphical mode since I upgraded to roswell. First, I made a normal upgrade from seawolf to roswell, the installation process went fine but after install and boot for the first time, I tried to startx and my computer just seemed to freeze. I was able to ping it from another computer in my local network, and also made a SSH and I was able to reboot the computer. After several tries, I was getting the same results and finally I decided to wipe out and start over again, did a fresh install of roswell and everything seemed fine, except that x-window is not working, same problems, same errors. Seawolf and Guiness have worked fine with the current hardware. After examining /var/log/messages, I found something interesting related to the crash, it only happens when I type startx. I upgraded to initscripts from rawhide, as well as kernel 2.4.7 from rawhide, same results. Here are the relevant part from /var/log/messages, I'll attach XFree86- Config and the log files also. Aug 18 14:51:46 home -- imoq[940]: LOGIN ON tty2 BY imoq Aug 18 14:51:50 home modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-226 Aug 18 14:51:50 home modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-226 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5a5a5a5a Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: printing eip: Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: d08ed8d0 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: *pde = 00000000 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: Oops: 0000 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: CPU: 0 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: EIP: 0010: [8139too:__insmod_8139too_O/lib/modules/2.4.7-0.8/kernel/drivers/net+- 26416/96] Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: EIP: 0010:[<d08ed8d0>] Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: EFLAGS: 00013206 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: eax: 00000002 ebx: 5a5a5a5a ecx: ca67dd0c edx: d08f047c Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: esi: ca67db04 edi: 00000001 ebp: d08f0ce0 esp: c97c1c54 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: Process X (pid: 1125, stackpage=c97c1000) Aug 18 14:51:50home kernel: Stack: ca469e3c 00001000 cffd4f68 40027000 c012784f ca469e3c ca46938c 00000080 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: 00000000 c97c1ed4 00000000 ca488560 c97c1d78 cffd4f68 c97c0000 c013fc03 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: cffd4f68 ca488560 c97c1d78 00000000 c97c0000 c013fd64 00000000 c97c1d78 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: Call Trace: [exit_mmap+111/288] [exec_mmap+35/288] [flush_old_exec+100/592] [load_elf_binary+1150/2640] [8139too:__insmod_8139too_O/lib/modules/2.4.7-0.8/kernel/drivers/net+- 935086/96] Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: Call Trace: [<c012784f>] [<c013fc03>] [<c013fd64>] [<c0150ffe>] [<d080fb52>] Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: [8139too:__insmod_8139too_O/lib/modules/2.4.7-0.8/kernel/drivers/net+- 993555/96] [load_elf_binary+0/2640] [search_binary_handler+113/384] [do_execve+380/480] [getname+94/160] [sys_execve+48/96] Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: [<d08016ed>] [<c0150b80>] [<c0140371>] [<c01405fc>] [<c01414be>] [<c0105b40>] Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: [system_call+51/56] Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: [<c0106f0b>] Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: Code: 8b 13 8d 47 01 39 72 3c 0f 44 f8 3b 54 24 14 75 25 85 c9 74 Aug 18 14:51:50 home kernel: exit_mmap: map count is 21 Aug 18 14:52:28 home syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
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Upgrade to latest XFree86, Mesa, kernel, xinitrc from Rawhide. I am running a Voodoo 3 on that, and it works fine.
I've Cc'd Arjan as your logs have oops messages in them. It might be that the kernel is oopsing and causing what appears to be an X lockup, but is not. Arjan?
I am posting now from KDE, it's working fine after upgrading to what you suggested (tough my fonts look funny, they aren't what they used to be, I have to fix it). About the "oops", it was the previous kernel in rawhide, this one is working fine. Any chances you can tell me how to make the desktop icons smaller in KDE? I can't find that option anywhere :(.
2.4.7-0.8 had a known oops bug in the DRM code... seems you got bitten by that.