Re: X11 segfault after fresh install of lenny on PowerBook G4

[Greg Ward <greg@gerg.ca>]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Greg Ward <greg@gerg.ca> wrote:
> I've just installed lenny on a 12" PowerBook G4 from the 5.0.4 netinst
> CD.  (Yeah, I know that 5.0.5 is out.  I downloaded and burned the CD
> a couple of months ago, and just got around to installing it today.  I
> like netinst because it lets me get away with procrastinating like
> that.)
>
> The installation and initial boot went just fine, but X11 segfaults on
> startup.  I tried regenerating xorg.conf with "dpkg --reconfigure
> xorg-xserver" and get the same result.
>
> Here is the stdout+stderr of running X:
[...]
> Backtrace:
> 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x98) [0x10083428]
> 1: [0x100344]
> 2: [0xbffff8ec]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so(XAAFillMono8x8PatternRectsScreenOrigin+0xec)
> [0xf63aaec]
> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so(XAAPaintWindow+0x6a8) [0xf649808]
> 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xf682f60]
> 6: X [0x101584ec]
> 7: X(compPaintWindowBackground+0x78) [0x100dc248]
> 8: X(miWindowExposures+0x1e8) [0x100fb0e8]
> 9: X [0x100b4dc8]
> 10: X(MapWindow+0x3a4) [0x10031f24]
> 11: X(InitRootWindow+0x130) [0x100320f0]
> 12: X(main+0x434) [0x1002bc34]
> 13: /lib/libc.so.6 [0xfb93704]
> 14: /lib/libc.so.6 [0xfb938c0]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Found a workaround.  All I had to do was set UseFBDev = false in
/etc/X11.xorg.conf.  Now X starts OK.  I've just opened a bug.

Greg