X-Org problem

[Ott Köstner]

On Saturday 25 April 2009 11:57:38 am Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 4/24/09, Ott Koestner <OttK at zzz.ee> wrote:
> > Neal Hogan wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ott Koestner <ottk at zzz.ee> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear list,
> >>>
> >>> After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version
> >>> xorg-server-1.6.0,1
> >>> xorg-7.4_1
> >>>
> >>> I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly exiting with
> >>> message:
> >>>
> >>> Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kernel: pid 7445 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6
> >>> Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kdm-bin[1020]: X server for display :0 terminated
> >>> unexpectedly
> >>>
> >>> Also, there is a strange behavior with dual-head mode -- when moving
> >>> cursor from one screen to another, the little white arrow remains on the
> >>> other screen.
> >>>
> >>> Please help! What might it be? Recompiled probably everything related to
> >>> Xorg. Using Nvidia driver version
> >>> nvidia-driver-96.43.11
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm no expert, but to help those that are, I suggest that you post the
> >> contents of your /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log (perhaps a dmesg, too).
> >>
> >>
> > After the crash Xorg is instantly restarted. Probably there is no reason
> > to copy the whole log here. Everything looks normal for some time and
> > then it restarts just at a random moment. No reason to blame hardware.
> > It was stable before pre-previous Xorg server update (over 100 days uptime).
> >
> > Ill-effects started after I upgraded to xorg-server-1.5.3. Mouse buttons
> > started to freeze randomly. That is why I chose to upgrade to
> > xorg-server-1.6.0.
> > Xorg.0.log.old ends like this:
> > ...
...
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> >
> >
> > Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
> >          at http://wiki.x.org
> >  for help.
> > Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
> > information.

> > pid 7797 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6
> > pid 47182 (PBReg), uid 1001: exited on signal 10
> > pid 47199 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11
> > pid 47200 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>> With best regards,
> >>> Ott Koestner
> >>>

> I saw on svn-head that signal 6 crash is caused by FreeBSD
> malloc/libc, and is fixed on CURRENT but that may not be related to
> your problem.
 
Now I have isolated the problem with x.org but still not been able to find a solution.

X crash is not random, but keyboard associated and appears 100% when pressing any key on keyboard and and letting it auto-repeat. Meanwhile, updated the whole system (kernel and world) to 7.2-PRERELEASE. Recompiled xf86-input-keyboard and xorg-server, but nothing helps in this case. :(


With best regards,
Ott Köstner