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#1 2012-03-13 09:36:19

PierreR
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[Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

I have the "segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver" problem described here with the latest [extra] Xorg package (1.12.0.1):

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1071118

xf86-video-vmware version is 12.0.0.1

Unfortunately for me there are no downgrade packages for Xorg in /var/cache/pacman for some mysterious reasons  (I did a pacman -Scc but this was a couple days before upgrade)

Would it help to rebuild xf86-video-vmware from ABS ?

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by PierreR (2012-03-19 08:59:46)

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#2 2012-03-13 09:49:19

skunktrader
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Re: [Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

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#3 2012-03-13 10:20:25

PierreR
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Re: [Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

I am aware of this thanks. I was just surprised not to find the old Xorg packages in the cache. Apparently pacman does not save the old packages at each upgrade so I might be more careful dropping the cache in the future. As I have a backup vm image anyway, I have decided not to worry further.

Hope this problem will be resolved soon.

Cheers

Last edited by PierreR (2012-03-13 10:21:54)

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#4 2012-03-13 21:55:28

Sanne
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Re: [Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

Hi all, new user here, great distro! Today I encountered my first problem. smile

I'm running Arch in a vm via qemu-kvm under an (old) Ubuntu host, for learning. After today's upgrade I also get xorg segfaults. I'm using the xf86-video-cirrus driver with the vm. It seems related to the problem in this thread, so I'm posting my solution here for others who might need it.

I downgraded to the following packages to get xorg to start again, like this:

# cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
# pacman -U xorg-server-common-1.11.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U xf86-video-cirrus-1.3.2.7-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U xorg-server-1.11.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Edit: solved with xf86-video-cirrus-1.4.0-1 from 2012-03-24

Last edited by Sanne (2012-03-31 11:25:46)


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#5 2012-03-14 21:43:19

PierreR
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Re: [Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

For info, today upgrade to xf86-video-vmware 12.0.1-1 (2012-03-14) has not fixed the problem (at least for me).

Same sub module loading error (vgahw) in Xorg.log. So the same error as the linked post:

/usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x34) [0x567e44]
/usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x16b8b9) [0x56b8b9]
/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f57a34b6000+0xf270) [0x7f57a34c5270]

Segmentation fault at address (nil)

Cheers

Last edited by PierreR (2012-03-14 21:51:45)

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#6 2012-03-17 15:10:25

inktvis75
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Re: [Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

i'm looking into the problem, see also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137733

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#7 2012-03-19 08:59:08

PierreR
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Re: [Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

Thanks!  Solved by replace "7" by "8" in the vmx file (See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137733):

virtualHW.version = "8"

I use VM Player 4.0.2 (I guess the change will not work if you use a VM Player version < 4)

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#8 2012-03-19 09:48:32

lardon
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Re: [Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

@PierreR: Thank you so much! Changing the hardware version from 7 to 8 in the vmx file solved the problem!

Don't you love it that the vmware people try to make you believe you need their expensive products to do that, when all you need is to change a single digit in a text file?

BTW, using xf86-video-vmware-git did not solve the problem.


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#9 2012-03-19 10:08:02

inktvis75
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Re: [Solved] Segfaults with the xf86-video-vmware driver and Xorg

@Iardon, just changing the version nr enables also some other virtual hardware functions

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