On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:11:42PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Sorry for posting in private, but this mail is not in the > mailing list archive after 5 hours. I just want to make > sure that there is no problem with the list software ... You mailed branden+svnadmin@deadbeast.not; please don't mail that address with non-SVN-related concerns. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:04:17 +0100 (CET) > From: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> > To: debian-x@lists.debian.org > Subject: X fails to start without an error message > > Hello, > > I'm using X packages from experimental (version 4.3.0-0pre1v5) because > I have an i830 card in a new box. This box works fine with recent Knoppix > or Gnoppix inserted, i.e. they work as expcted with X. > If I use the original Debian packages answering all the debconf questions > I get the XFree86.0.log I appended to the end of this mail. Strangely > enough it doese not show any error message but fails in the end. Yeah, it does: > (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a > > *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not > *** be the reason for the server aborting. > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting Looks like it's SEGVing when reloading the DDC module. > More strangely I thought, well, let's take the XF86Config-4 which was > generated by the Knoppix auto detection which worked obviousely. But > if I use this the succeess is similiar. The logfile differs in some > lines but also no error messages and startx fails as well. I've > absolutely no idea how to debug this if there are no error messages. Can you file a bug report and include a diff of the two logfiles? Be sure to include the other stuff mentioned in XF86Config(7x). -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance is bliss, branden@debian.org | is omniscience hell? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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