Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg
[ Dropping the libc6 list from CC, as this doesn't seem to have anything
to do with libc6 after all ]
On Don, 2011-05-05 at 23:14 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 23:41 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Steve, can you provide the output of fbset -i and the
> > > > "/etc/X11/xorg.conf file as well? Any reason for not using the radeon
> > > > driver?
> > >
> > > I don't know why the radeon driver is not in use.
> >
> > Looks like you're missing the xserver-xorg-video-ati package, which is
> > necessary for the radeon driver to get loaded automagically by the X
> > server. Maybe this package was accidentally uninstalled along with the
> > libc6 upgrade?
>
> You're right. Reinstalling this makes X run again. Thanks!
>
> Actually, I may have uninstalled xserver-xorg-video-ati myself. I
> dimly recall thinking it weird that I could uninstall the ATI package
> without uninstalling the RADEON package. I figured that if RADEON
> required it, there would be a package dependency.
>
> In any case, my immediate problem is solved.
So, where does that leave this report? I still suspect the bug is that
the fbdev driver doesn't properly handle the virtual directive in
SubSection "Display", but before reassigning to xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
(and most likely remaining dormant at least for a while), I'd like to at
least get confirmation that the fbdev driver doesn't crash without the
virtual directive. Otherwise, I'm afraid we'll just have to close this
report as a configuration error.
P.S. Apologies to those who didn't quite manage to derail this bug
report. ;)
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com
Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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