Bug#488669: xserver-xorg: X fails to start on a SUN ULTRA 5

[Daniel Smolik <marvin@mydatex.cz>]

Riku Voipio napsal(a):
> 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.
Yes you are rigt.


> > 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?
Yes there David Miller explain this problem.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/3/147


			Regards
				Dan

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