Bug 59832 – Graphical login screen crashes X

Bug 59832 - Graphical login screen crashes X

Summary:	Graphical login screen crashes X

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.2
Hardware:	alpha Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Mike A. Harris
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2002-02-13 14:15 EST by Diego Novillo
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:40 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-04-20 08:18:52 EDT
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/var/log/messages (8.22 KB, text/plain) 2002-02-13 14:16 EST, Diego Novillo	no flags	Details
/var/log/XFree86.0.log (19.80 KB, text/plain) 2002-02-13 14:17 EST, Diego Novillo	no flags	Details
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Description Diego Novillo 2002-02-13 14:15:23 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011226

Description of problem:
When switching to runlevel 5, the graphical login screen never appears.  Instead
X continually crashes and re-starts.  

This problem occurs regardless of the login manager used.  I reproduced it with
both gdm and kdm.

I'll attach /var/log/messages and /var/log/XFree86.0.log with the messages
logged when switching to runlevel 5.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch to runlevel 5.
2. Watch X starting up and dying continuously.
	

Actual Results:  X switches to graphical mode and then dies.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Diego Novillo 2002-02-13 14:16:24 EST

Created attachment 45579 [details]
/var/log/messages

Comment 2 Diego Novillo 2002-02-13 14:17:07 EST

Created attachment 45580 [details]
/var/log/XFree86.0.log

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-08 10:20:11 EST

Reassigning...

Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-08 10:26:50 EST

Your X server log doesn't show any crash info, so it is not helpful
to know what the real problem might be.  It's useful nonetheless for
various other info.

One thing I'm a bit confused by though, is that this is filed against
Red Hat Linux 7.3/Alpha, and we do not have an Alpha product for 7.3.
Did you mean to file it against 7.1 or 7.2?  I believe the X version
used in your log is the 7.2/Alpha X release.

Is this problem still present in our released RHL 7.2/Alpha?  If so,
can you try using runlevel 3 and startx and let me know if it fails
there too?

If it fails with startx, I'll need you to get me a backtrace with
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/gdb-xfree86 from a coredump, or from
starting the server with gdb directly in order to know where it is
dying.

Also, try disabling DRI by commenting out the: Load "dri" line
If that doesn't fix it, try disabling accel with:  Option "noaccel" also.

Do any of the above options stop the crashing?

Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2002-12-21 16:57:25 EST

We no longer support Alpha officially.

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