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gen2

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 32

xorg crashing with fatal error

I'm not sure what the problem is but from what I can tell its probably due to Xinerama. I can't replicate this bug consistently, it seems to only appear after Xorg has been running for several days.

Running everything latest from repo.

Running on dual opteron, with 6gb ram, 64-bit arch, 2x7800GTX nvidia's, 4 screens attached, and i'm using the  libfakexinerama patch

Some outputs:

Linux skynet 2.6.27-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 21 09:13:30 UTC 2008 x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

[geniesis@skynet log]$ pacman -Qi nvidia
Name           : nvidia
Version        : 177.82-1

[geniesis@skynet log]$ pacman -Qi xorg
Name           : xorg
Version        : 11R7.0-1

Here is the backtrace:

(==) ServerLayout "PCIe 4screen"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) |   |-->Device "Device0"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen1" (1)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor1"
(**) |   |-->Device "Device1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) Option "Xinerama" "1"
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++OTHER OUTPUT++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: xkb_rules: "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: xkb_model: "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: xkb_layout: "us"
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: always reports core events
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Configuring as mouse
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Macintosh mouse button emulation" (type: MOUSE)
AUDIT: Mon Jan 26 18:35:03 2009: 23590 Xorg: client 5 rejected from local host ( uid=102 gid=102 pid=23614 )
AUDIT: Mon Jan 26 18:35:03 2009: 23590 Xorg: client 5 rejected from local host ( uid=102 gid=102 pid=23615 )
AUDIT: Mon Jan 26 18:35:03 2009: 23590 Xorg: client 5 rejected from local host ( uid=102 gid=102 pid=23616 )

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4ed8e6]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x496739]
2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f10b81e1150]
3: /usr/bin/Xorg(PanoramiXGetGeometry+0x141) [0x50edb1]
4: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x364) [0x44d034]
5: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x45d) [0x43369d]
6: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f10b81cd546]
7: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x432a79]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

(II) IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Microsoft Microsoft IntelliMouse? Explorer: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Plantronics Plantronics Headset: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Screen 0 shares mem & io resources
(II) Screen 1 shares mem & io resources

Any ideas why this might be happening?

ahcaliskan

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 174

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

try reinstalling nvidia driver and nvidia-utils, hopefully it will solve the libglx symlink at /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so

Last edited by ahcaliskan (2009-01-30 16:18:15)

gen2

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 32

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

Reinstalled it but still having crashes.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

There is no xorg package in Arch, as well as Arch's nVidia driver is newer. The output you have is unlike anything that I've ever seen. This is Arch?

gen2

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 32

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

Yup This is arch.

Did a pacman -syu today

[geniesis@skynet ~]$ pacman -Qi xorg
Name           : xorg
Version        : 11R7.0-1

Yes, i know its a dummy package. But it references the versions.

[geniesis@skynet ~]$ pacman -Qi xorg-server
Name           : xorg-server
Version        : 1.5.3-4

[geniesis@skynet ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia
Name           : nvidia
Version        : 180.22-1

[geniesis@skynet ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia-utils
Name           : nvidia-utils
Version        : 180.22-1

[geniesis@skynet ~]$ uname -a
Linux skynet 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 25 09:43:53 UTC 2009 x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Its still happening. And its the same error as before.

ahcaliskan

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 174

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

Name           : xorg
Version        : 11R7.0-1

There is no xorg package in arch! And the newest version is 7.4, so you need to remove that package and install xorg group packages again. Like this:

pacman -S xorg

and you'll get this packages installed:

xf86-input-keyboard  xf86-input-mouse  xf86-video-vesa  xorg-fonts-100dpi 
    xorg-fonts-75dpi  xorg-res-utils  xorg-server  xorg-twm  xorg-xinit  xterm

gen2

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 32

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

Crashed again today with the same error.

This is after i tried ahcaliskan's recommendation of doing pacman -S xorg.

ahcaliskan

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 174

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

did you remove the old "xorg" package first?

gen2

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 32

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

Yup,

But still crashing

TheBiNz

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 5

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

I am having the same issue and I believe it all started after I updated xorg-server.
My last crash produced the following.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4ed8e6]
1: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x496739]
2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7fe78d28f150]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so [0x7fe78aa4263c]
4: /usr/bin/X(miTrapezoids+0x1cf) [0x519b1f]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so [0x7fe78aa43758]
6: /usr/bin/X [0x52370d]
7: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x364) [0x44d034]
8: /usr/bin/X(main+0x45d) [0x43369d]
9: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7fe78d27b546]
10: /usr/bin/X [0x432a79]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

What version of xorg-server are you running?
> yaourt -Qs xorg-server

I am running:
extra/xorg-server 1.5.3-4 (xorg)
     X.Org X servers
extra/xorg-server-utils 7.4-2
     X.Org utilities required by xorg-serv

TheBiNz

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 5

Re: xorg crashing with fatal error

Please disregard what i have said in my previous post. I have found the solution to my problem.
Recently I upgraded to 8GB of ram which is when the problems started appearing.

Everyhting was segfaulting; firefox, xorg, virtualbox, etc. Really unstable system with random crashes and freezes along with segmentation faults like no ones business.
I thought it had to do with recent updates I installed, but after much research I found the problem lay within the DDR2 Ram Voltage. My Gigabyte P35-DS3L motherboard has a standard ram voltage of 1.8V (most MOBO's do), but the 8GB's of OCZ ram I upgraded to require 2.2V. Running it on auto (1.8V) was causing all the problems, so, after I overvolted by +0.5v in my BIOS, approximatly 2.3V, it is finally running stable again! Yay for happy Arch!

Anyways, thats may not be your prob gen2, but check into it... and I hope this helps others in a similar situation.