X fails after upgrade to xorg-server 1.12

vgivanovic · 2012-03-17 03:13:19

The recent upgrade to Xorg 1.12 causes a fatal server error when I run startx because the X server cannot rename /var/log/X.0.log to /var/log/X.0.log.old (EACCESS). Changnig the permissions on /var/log and the X log files only moves the error to "xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0" (EACCESS). If I "fix" /dev/tty0, then I get ENOENT for /dev/vc/0.

Here's some system info:
# inxi -xxv7 -c0
System: Kernel: 3.2.11-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) Desktop: N/A Distro: Arch Linux
Machine: System: Gateway product: LT31 serial: LUWEW0Y00292112DA52500 Chassis: type: 10
Mobo: Gateway model: SJM11-YK serial: LUWEW0Y00292112DA52500 Bios: Phoenix version: v1.3103 date: 05/27/2009
CPU: Single core AMD Athlon L110 (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 2394.7 clocked at 1196.979 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] bus-ID: 01:05.0
X.org: 1.11.3 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) tty size: 120x40 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network: Card-1: Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up
Card-2: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: a000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:23:8b:c7:3b:12
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1447.6GB (80.1% used) 1: /dev/sda Kingston_SSDNow 128.0GB
2: USB /dev/sdb HTS543232L9A300 320.1GB 3: /dev/sdc My_Passport_070A 999.5GB
Optical: /dev/sr0 model: N/A rev: N/A dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 51x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: no rw: none state: N/A

My system is a Gateway netbook with an AMD64 L110 processor and an ATI Radeon X1200 graphics chip. The system has 2GB of main memory, very little graphics memory (128MB?), and no 3D.

Here's what works and what doesn't:

Name Works Does not work
xf86-video-ati 6.14.3-1 6.14.3-2
xf86-video-fbdev 0.4.2-5 0.4.2-6
xf86-video-vesa 2.3.0-7 2.3.0-8
xorg-server 1.11.3-1 1.12.0-1

Any suggestions on how to get the latest Xorg release working? I'm willing to make more information available, or to do some experiments.

Cory_j · 2012-03-17 08:08:49

i say downgrade it for now heres a post on the it

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1071590

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_Packages

ConnorBehan · 2012-03-17 08:22:42

Is the last line in your Xorg.0.log

(--) using VT number 7

? This is where mine got to but X didn't stop running, it just left the screen perpetually black. Do we have the same error?

vgivanovic · 2012-03-17 16:04:14

ConnorBehan wrote:

Is the last line in your Xorg.0.log
(--) using VT number 7
? This is where mine got to but X didn't stop running, it just left the screen perpetually black. Do we have the same error?

No, my X log file did not end as yours did and in my case, X does not simply hang, it exits but does not release the screen so neither the mouse nor the keyboard work. I have to reboot to recover.

vgivanovic · 2012-03-17 16:10:53

Cory_j wrote:

i say downgrade it for now heres a post on the it
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1071590
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_Packages

Thanks for the pointers. I've gone through the downgrade-upgrade cycle several times to narrow the parts of 1.12 that don't work for me. Of the three video drivers (ati,vesa,fbdev) and the X server, only the X server has a version bump. The others look like mere re-compilations.

Unfortunately xorg-server isn't packaged with a ChangeLog, so I can't look at what's changed.

ConnorBehan · 2012-03-17 19:33:53

Yeah, when a new X server comes out all xf86-* drivers need to be recompiled against its ABI. So unless one of those drivers coincidentally receives a new upstream release exactly when the X server does, Arch users don't have to worry about them being the culprit.

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#1 2012-03-17 03:13:19

X fails after upgrade to xorg-server 1.12

#2 2012-03-17 08:08:49

Re: X fails after upgrade to xorg-server 1.12

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Re: X fails after upgrade to xorg-server 1.12

#4 2012-03-17 16:04:14

Re: X fails after upgrade to xorg-server 1.12

#5 2012-03-17 16:10:53

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Re: X fails after upgrade to xorg-server 1.12

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