Description of problem: X crashes when using nomodeset. Originally, I had only seen this on websites. However, I started getting this behavior when editing images with gthumb. I was able to edit one image by using the resize option. When I try to edit another image, I get get the crash. It doesn't matter what image now. Any time I right click an imagne and choose open with gthumb a crash occurs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.31.5-122.fc12.i686 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-0.10.20091006git457646d73.fc12.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.1-7.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Once the crash happens, it happens everytime the same way. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Going to http://www.newegg. will do this everytime. 2. 3. Actual results: X crashes and returns the login screen Expected results: Expect to be able to view websites and open applications. Additional info: Added an attachment from Xorg.0.log with seg fault.
Created attachment 368456 [details] Xorg log for crash Added log for the Xorg crash.
Some information from the latest crash at the end of dmesg: [drm] Num pipes: 1 [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading RS690/RS740 Microcode platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RS690_cp.bin [drm] Num pipes: 1 [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs metacity[1723]: segfault at 616d2078 ip 001fa9e1 sp bf9a0b10 error 6 in libSM.so.6.0.0[1f9000+7000] SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type fuse), uses genfs_contexts
Do you have any issue with KMS enabled ? Just so you know UMS is not a priority for us.
Yes. See this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533645
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 533973 ***