Bug#926859: X Server Does Not Start

[Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>]

On 2019-04-11 1:03 p.m., Toni wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.7+19
> Severity: grave
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure whether this is the correct package to report the bug
> against, since several drivers are involved, and X stopped working for
> every setup simultanously.
> 
> On my laptop with an Optimus graphics, X does no longer start after
> recent upgrades from two days ago until now. The symptom is that the X
> server briefly starts to draw the desktop, but then immediatly exits
> "successfully".

The X server exiting successfully means the problem most likely isn't on
the X server side but on the client side, e.g. the session manager
client disconnects.


> The error messages vary, depending on whether I am loading the nouveau
> driver or not. With the intel driver, I get:
> 
> 
> xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to setIOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
> 
> 
> With the nouveau driver, I get:
> 
> 
> Error allocating PGRAPH context for M2MF

These are thus likely red herrings.


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