Bug#488669: xserver-xorg: X fails to start on a SUN ULTRA 5
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:24:05PM +0200, Daniel Smolik wrote:
> Riku Voipio napsal(a):
> >>xf86DomainMem() : mmap() failure
> >
> >Can you try "strace X" to see what exactly is being mmap'd?
> >Also, can you try if upgrading to 2.6.26-4 kernel helps?
> Yes it looks like that driver starts open some files in proc:
> open("/proc/bus/pci/0000:00/01.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> direc
> stat64("/proc/bus/pci/0000:00", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> open("/proc/bus/pci/0000:00/02.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> direc
> stat64("/proc/bus/pci/0000:00", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> open("/proc/bus/pci/0000:00/02.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No su
> but this files doesn't exists.
It's not unusual, X and other applications try open a lot of files that
may not exist. What we are interested is the strace messages around the
mmap() error. If unsure, just pass the entire strace log as a
attachment.
> I read some posts in Sparc64 mailing list
> and mean that only solution for this problem is newer Xserver that
> uderstand new kernel interface.
do you have poiters to these discussions?
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