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Bug#375460: Upgrade to linux kernel 2.6.17 makes Xserver crasing on startup



On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:44:45PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 16:25 +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote: 
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:38:15AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:03 +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > This is the trace with ati driver. I also tried vesa, the trace also
> > > > started with xf86SigHandler+0x88 and ended with FontFileCompleteXLFD,
> > > > but it has a few more lines between.
> > > 
> > > Please provide the full log file and try and get a backtrace with gdb.
> > > 
> > 
> > Full log and gdb bt attached. The backtrace was gained from core
> > file because running xserver in gdb resulted in keyboard hard freeze
> > (no sysrq).
> 
> Yeah, you can only do that from a remote login, or you end up in a dead
> lock where gdb stops execution of the X server, which is what provides
> interaction with gdb...
> 
> The backtrace looks input related, and indeed, looking at the log file,
> it looks like /dev/input/event1 no longer represents a mouse but a
> keyboard, so the X server ends up running without a core pointer and
> probably chokes on that.
> 

Yes, exactly. event1/2 is switched in the new kernel. The same happened
to me once in the past, but IIRC the xserver printed some reasonable
warning about missing core pointer, so I found that easily.

I've created a simple udev rule and now have mouse on
/dev/input/psmouse. I should have done it when I started using evdev
interface.

Thank you for your time.

-- 
Marcel Sebek

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