FS#24538 - xorg crashes with Nvidia GeForce FX 5200

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dominik Köppl (dominikk) - Wednesday, 01 June 2011, 23:11 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 05 June 2011, 11:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.5.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Invoking `startx` results in a segmentation fault of the xorg-server.
Graphics Card: GeForce FX 5200
Driver: nvidia-173xx Version 173.14.30-1
Kernel: 2.6.38-ARCH
extra/xorg-server 1.10.2-1
   dmesg (32.2 KiB)
   lspci (1 KiB)
   Xorg.0.log (14.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 05 June 2011, 11:02 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Magically fixed by user!
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 02 June 2011, 00:46 GMT
  • Field changed: Attached to Project (Pacman → Arch Linux)
Wrong project...
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Thursday, 02 June 2011, 08:42 GMT
We can't do pretty much here, X segfaults and we can't really debug the issue because of the nvidia binary blob.

How do you start X? please post your .xinitrc otherwise try nouveau ;)
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Thursday, 02 June 2011, 08:47 GMT
I can only say everything works fine with my nvidia fx 5500 (same package versions).
Comment by Dominik Köppl (dominikk) - Thursday, 02 June 2011, 16:15 GMT
I've no .xinitrc, e.g. I'm running the command `startx` shipped with the extra/xorg-xinit package - so Xorg uses its default configuration.
Moveover, I've not altered /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d or add a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Switching to nouveau brings no cure - see attachment.

Using nouveau, I can see for a short time (less than half a second) twm displaying xterm and xclock. Then it shuts down.
   Xorg.0.log-nouveau (27.1 KiB)
Comment by Dominik Köppl (dominikk) - Thursday, 02 June 2011, 16:41 GMT
I've mysteriously fixed the problem by reinstalling xorg-server via
pacman -S xorg-server
Now both nvidia-173xx and nouveau are working perfectly.
Thus it was either a problem involving pacman or my machine.
I do not know how we can further investigate what happened.
It is unlikely that my harddrive caused the error - it's still shining new.
Nevertheless, I'm running now a long smartctl-based check.

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