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johnisevil

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From: Hamilton, ON Canada

Registered: 2003-08-07

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NVIDIA 1.0.9631 segfaulting [solved]

Since updating to 2.6.19 with the new NVIDIA driver, X startup segfaults with the following error:

[john@metatron ~]$ startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /home/john/.serverauth.4009


X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux metatron 2.6.19-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 10 12:
56:10 GMT 2006 i686
Build Date: 25 November 2006
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Dec 10 16:11:43 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c46a4]
1: [0xb7f4e420]
2: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2aa) [0x806e9fa]
3: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7d677c8]
4: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xad) [0x806df01]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Any ideas?

Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: NVIDIA 1.0.9631 segfaulting [solved]

I had the same problem...check here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=27684

See if that helps.

johnisevil

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From: Hamilton, ON Canada

Registered: 2003-08-07

Posts: 221

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Re: NVIDIA 1.0.9631 segfaulting [solved]

Deleting 2 left over files from /usr/lib/tls from a previous manual install of 8773 did the trick.