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#1 2010-09-02 06:37:54

cb7
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Registered: 2010-08-31
Posts: 1

Xorg Segmentation Fault with VirtualBox

Hello,

I am running Arch in VirtualBox on Windows 7 Hosts. Two are 64bit, the third a 32bit. All are running 32bit Arch. On one of the 64bit machines that I set up last week, everything works fine.
On the other 2 that I set up yesterday, I have the following issue:

When I log in as a regular user, i try to execute xinit, and I receive a Segmentation Fault. However, if I run it as root, everything loads just fine, like on the working 64bit machine.

I tried to follow the same procedure as with the working box...

pacman -Sy
pacman -S xorg awesome feh (on the working box, I initially installed kde)
installed guest additions and rebooted.
xinit which leads to the errors.

Here's /var/log/Xorg.0.log:    http://pastebin.com/vHJPsJ75

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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#2 2010-09-03 18:20:34

tas
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Registered: 2010-09-03
Posts: 2

Re: Xorg Segmentation Fault with VirtualBox

Hello,

The same problem here, does anyone know the solution?

In my case xorg generally works fine on the root account but from time to time crashes with segmentation fail especially when I close Twm and xterm.

Thanks in advance,

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#3 2010-09-17 15:10:24

lovat
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From: Shanghai
Registered: 2008-01-03
Posts: 41

Re: Xorg Segmentation Fault with VirtualBox

I also can confirm this problem,both in the latest version of Virtualbox and Vmware, I can run startx as root, but not for normal user.
The system is fully updated. Virtualbox GuestAddins and VMware-tools were successfully installed.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log : http://pastebin.com/WjP9QJrd

$ id shark 
  uid=1000(shark) gid=1000(shark) groups=1000(shark),7(lp),10(wheel),91(video),92(audio),93(optical),95(storage),98(power),100(users),82(hal)

$ uname -r 
 2.6.35-ARCH

$ Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.8.1.902 (1.8.2 RC 2)
Release Date: 2010-06-21
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.34-ARCH i686 
Current Operating System: Linux sea 2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 27 16:22:18 UTC 2010 i686
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c58a5aab-bb24-445c-b148-981002e6bea5 ro
Build Date: 21 June 2010  11:54:27AM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.18.4
    Before reporting problems, check [url]http://wiki.x.org[/url]
    to make sure that you have the latest version.

Last edited by lovat (2010-09-17 15:29:30)


Do not use Linux as desktop.

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#4 2010-09-18 12:41:55

lovat
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From: Shanghai
Registered: 2008-01-03
Posts: 41

Re: Xorg Segmentation Fault with VirtualBox

According to my latest "research", this is might be a problem with xf86-video-vmware driver.
please see this :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102403
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100020

As in Virtualbox, try to use vesa driver instead.
This is not the way to solve this problem, but we are not xf86-video-vmware author,
can do nothing about it.


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