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List:       opensolaris-help
Subject:    Re: [osol-help] x.org server fails on reboot snv_107, 108
From:       Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () sun ! com>
Date:       2009-03-02 17:59:03
Message-ID: 49AC1E67.9020701 () sun ! com
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Kevin Kammer wrote:
> I have encountered a strange error since upgrading to snv_107. After booting, gdm \
> attempts to start an X session, but fails. After several retries, the X server \
> gives up, and the console login screen remains. Thereupon, I can login to a text \
> session, and type: 
> $ pfexec svcadm restart gdm
> 
> ...and X starts up with no problem.
> 
> An examination of /var/log/Xorg.0.log (corresponding to the current, successful X \
> session) and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old (corresponding to the X failure, when gdm came \
> up as part of the boot process) shows that there is no difference in the logs, \
> except the failed log ends with a backtrace and "Fatal server error: Caught signal \
> 11.  Server aborting." All other steps in the log are identical between the working \
> and the crashed X sessions. 
> This happens every time I reboot; the gdm service must be restarted manually, \
> whereupon everything works as it should. 
> I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting this issue, given that the Xorg log \
> shows no abnormalities, until it crashes and burns, apparently for no reason. Any \
> ideas or advice would be appreciated.

If there's a stack trace in the Xorg log, then you've found a bug
and the stack trace is the place to start with it.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith@sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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