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Bug 590501

Summary: [PATCH] nouveau crashes when X server is started with no usable outputs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.0CC: cmeadors, tpelka
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OS: Linux   
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Proposed fix, apply with git am none

Description Lubomir Rintel 2010-05-09 23:31:50 UTC
Description of problem:

Backtrace:
0: X (xorg_backtrace+0x3c) [0x80a1f0c]
1: X (0x8047000+0x58f46) [0x809ff46]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0x79240c]
3: X (xf86InitViewport+0x66) [0x80b4be6]
4: X (InitOutput+0xca0) [0x80b90b0]
5: X (0x8047000+0x1b765) [0x8062765]
6: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x578bb6]
7: X (0x8047000+0x1b511) [0x8062511]
Segmentation fault at address 0x18

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2efd.el6.i686

Comment 1 Lubomir Rintel 2010-05-09 23:34:05 UTC
Created attachment 412687 [details]
Proposed fix, apply with git am

This patch makes the X server deal with missing outputs more gracefully instead of segfaulting (and making ABRT sad).

(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Comment 2 Ben Skeggs 2010-05-10 00:09:55 UTC
Thanks for that, I'll test the patch here today and post it upstream.  I'll batch this up in an update soon, there's another patch I'm waiting on testing from too.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-10 01:20:02 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 7 Ben Skeggs 2010-05-18 04:36:22 UTC
MODIFIED xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-6.20100423git13c1043.el6 is available in brew.

Comment 10 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-15 13:46:30 UTC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.