Bug 716741 - X refuses to start
Summary: X refuses to start
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-26 20:30 UTC by John Himpel
Modified: 2011-07-04 21:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-07-04 21:29:25 UTC
Type: ---


Attachments (Terms of Use)
I believe this is the smolt id (37 bytes, text/plain)
2011-06-26 20:30 UTC, John Himpel
no flags Details
List of installed xorg and mesa rpms (3.31 KB, text/plain)
2011-06-26 20:31 UTC, John Himpel
no flags Details
Xorg log (36.37 KB, text/plain)
2011-06-26 20:32 UTC, John Himpel
no flags Details
kernel version (results of uname -a) (121 bytes, text/plain)
2011-06-26 20:43 UTC, John Himpel
no flags Details

Description John Himpel 2011-06-26 20:30:54 UTC
Created attachment 509993 [details]
I believe this is the smolt id

Description of problem:
When I boot Fedora (rawhide) into graphical mode, the X server tries to start five times before giving up.


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

How reproducible:
yes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot into graphical mode
2. OR boot into console mode and enter "startx"
3.
  
Actual results:
See attachment


Expected results:
X server to start

Additional info:
See attachment

Comment 1 John Himpel 2011-06-26 20:31:54 UTC
Created attachment 509994 [details]
List of installed xorg and mesa rpms

Comment 2 John Himpel 2011-06-26 20:32:37 UTC
Created attachment 509995 [details]
Xorg log

Comment 3 John Himpel 2011-06-26 20:43:43 UTC
Created attachment 509996 [details]
kernel version (results of uname -a)

Comment 4 Elad Alfassa 2011-06-27 07:42:03 UTC
Backtrace:
[    59.037] 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x2f) [0x46207f]
[    59.038] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x66dc6) [0x466dc6]
[    59.038] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x3fef400000+0xeeb0) [0x3fef40eeb0]
[    59.038] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (0x7f1725ad1000+0xd9e01) [0x7f1725baae01]
[    59.039] 4: /usr/bin/Xorg (AddScreen+0x17f) [0x433baf]
[    59.039] 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (InitOutput+0x282) [0x47a002]
[    59.039] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x22a09) [0x422a09]
[    59.040] 7: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x3fef02139d]
[    59.040] 8: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x22eb1) [0x422eb1]
[    59.040] Segmentation fault at address 0xfffffffffff0904c
[    59.041] 
Fatal server error:
[    59.041] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

(from log)
Seems that X crashes on startup.



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Comment 5 John Himpel 2011-07-04 21:29:25 UTC
User error.  Usage of mixed yum repositories (updates/updates-testing/rawhide) results in mesa modules being out-of-synch.
Removed updates & updates-testing repositories, yum update and all is fine.


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