Description of problem: Fedora 17 i686 livecd crashes (Xorg) while running in VMware Player Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Live image build from the latest sources as of: Thu Mar 8 19:56:00 CET 2012 In particular xorg version: xorg-x11-server-1.11.99.901-6.20120124.fc17 How reproducible: 100% (at least on my machine) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Fedora 17 i686 livecd image in VMware Player running on Fedora 16. Actual results: No graphical user interface is available Expected results: Image should boot successfully. Additional info: It looks that hwp->writeDacMask points to NULL: #12 0x0092fef3 in vgaHWSaveColormap (scrninfp=scrninfp@entry=0x99d0ba8, save=save@entry=0x99d18bc) at vgaHW.c:1076 1076 hwp->writeDacMask(hwp, 0xFF); $4 = (vgaHWWriteProcPtr) 0
Created attachment 568733 [details] gdb session dump
Created attachment 568734 [details] Xorg.0.log
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-14.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-14.fc17
Package xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-14.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-14.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-3630/xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-14.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
*** Bug 803450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm still observing the same issue while upgrading to the xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-14.fc17 version.
Created attachment 572187 [details] gdb session dump (xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-14.fc17.i686 version)
Created attachment 572188 [details] Xorg.0.log (xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-14.fc17.i686 version)
Created attachment 572189 [details] rpm -qa "xorg\*" | sort - output
This happens on x86_64 platform as well.
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.1-2.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.1-2.fc17
Package xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.1-2.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.1-2.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-4925/xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.1-2.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.1-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.