Bug#623461: xserver-xorg-core: when launching virtualbox (and some other X apps), the X server crashes

[Andy Chittenden <andyc@bluearc.com>]

> http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/use-gdb.html


Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000427db0 in doListFontsAndAliases (client=0x2a230a0, c=0x2a23610)
    at ../../dix/dixfonts.c:614
614     ../../dix/dixfonts.c: No such file or directory.
        in ../../dix/dixfonts.c
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000000427db0 in doListFontsAndAliases (client=0x2a230a0, c=0x2a23610)
    at ../../dix/dixfonts.c:614
#1  0x000000000042ad21 in ProcessWorkQueue () at ../../dix/dixutils.c:527
#2  0x000000000045ef32 in WaitForSomething (
    pClientsReady=<value optimized out>) at ../../os/WaitFor.c:169
#3  0x0000000000448602 in Dispatch () at ../../dix/dispatch.c:368
#4  0x00000000004257ab in main (argc=12, argv=0x7fff8286cac8,
    envp=<value optimized out>) at ../../dix/main.c:291
(gdb)

> > Section "Files"
>     FontPath        "unix/:7100"
> EndSection

> Trying getting rid of that. Probably (especially given your trace)
> just the first bug mentioned in the first bullet of:
>  http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/04/03/DXN-8/

That fixed it. FWIW That stanza was put into the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file by nvidia-xconfig.

-- 
Andy, BlueArc Engineering