Bug#465406: xserver-xorg: some xkb options crash the server
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:49:59PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:19:26 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:13:47AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:59:56PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
>>>> I wonder if it could be fixed by the following upstream commit:
>>>> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commitdiff;h=7018f280406eb0ef899a4046de274cfdd582881b;hp=66f8001b61d12eaf4905ac71ccbb3f304914d00d
>>> With this patch applied, (...) the attached xorg.conf does [crash X].
>> That is, it crashes the server even before gdm starts (not when Gnome
>> starts as before).
> Can you get a backtrace of the crash with gdb (you need to attach
> gdb to the X server from an ssh session)?
Hmm... How do I beat the race condition of X dying before I can attach
to it? Can I simply run "startx" from a gdb in an SSH session? Or
maybe enable core file generation and load that in gdb?
--
Lionel
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