Xorg crashes several times a day

[Christoph Brinkhaus]

Am Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 09:28:11PM +0700 schrieb Victor Sudakov:

Hi Victor,

> Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > Jacques Foucry wrote:
> > > > I forgot to mention that I've tried using /boot/modules/i915kms.ko from
> > > > the package graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod instead of the bundled
> > > > /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko - but it is even worse: the X graphics screem
> > > > freezes very soon after startx, maybe a minute or two.
> > > > 
> > > > Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > > > > Dear Colleagues,
> > > > > 
> > > > > After a recent pkg upgrade, Xorg started crashing several times a day:
> > > > > 
> > > > > pid 71319 (Xorg), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 6
> > > > > 
> > > > > The log https://termbin.com/68b1 looks pretty normal to me.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I was unable to find the core file.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is anybody experiencing similar issues?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 12.2-RELEASE-p2, xorg-server-1.20.9_1,1, xorg-drivers-7.7_6
> > > 
> > > I know it's stupid, and you can forgot my answer, but did you recompile from
> > > sources i915kms.ko module? The one which come with pkg is buggy.
> > 
> > No, I did not, just installed from pkg. I'll recompile/install from the
> > ports if you advise so.
> 
> Well, I've recompiled and installed graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod, now my
> drm_info output looks like this: https://termbin.com/481e
> I shall see how often Xorg will crash now.
> 
> But really, is the graphics/drm-kmod port really necessary and why? The
> default FreeBSD installation already contains /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko
> and /boot/kernel/drm2.ko, and I load them from rc.conf.
>  
> Is anything wrong with them?

According to the FreeBSD Forum the packages are build for the oldest
supported branches. For the 12 series it is currently 12.1. The
drm-fbsd12.0-kmod is one of the very rare cases where is a conflict
between FreeBSD-12.1 and FreeBSD-12.2 exists. Therefore it must be
build from ports for FreeBSD-12.2 installations until FreeBSD-12.1 is
end of life.

Kind regards,
Christoph