[arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

Thu Oct 15 18:54:11 EDT 2009

On Thursday 15 October 2009 01:43:57 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
> On Thursday 15 October 2009 01:19:25 pm Xavier wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin
> >
> > <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> > > latest Xorg.0.log is here:
> > >
> > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > I don't see any errors in your xorg log. You are 100% sure it is the
> > correct one ?
> > The timestamp from the log :
> > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Oct 14 16:15:03 2009
> >
> > > If you have any other suggestions or ideas, please let me know. Thanks.
> >
> > also paste output of dmesg.
> 
> I don't know what rsync didn't update it, but it is updated now:
> 
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Oct 15 13:36:06 2009
> <snip>
> 
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (II) Power Button: Close
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> 
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x809facb]
> 1: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x54ab5) [0x809cab5]
> 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb776d40c]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so (shadowRemove+0x4e) [0xb70cfd9e]
> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so (0xb70cf000+0x1234) [0xb70d0234]
> 5: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x68cf4) [0x80b0cf4]
> 6: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x15c2ac) [0x81a42ac]
> 7: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x4f19c) [0x809719c]
> 8: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x17447c) [0x81bc47c]
> 9: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x13d3de) [0x81853de]
> 10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so (0xb7740000+0x38a8)
>  [0xb77438a8] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x6787c) [0x80af87c]
> 12: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0xb475d) [0x80fc75d]
> 13: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0xfa245) [0x8142245]
> 14: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x141112) [0x8189112]
> 15: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0xa0430) [0x80e8430]
> 16: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0xc17b9) [0x81097b9]
> 17: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x114872) [0x815c872]
> 18: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (0xb725f000+0x379e3)
> [0xb72969e3]
> 19: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1ab48) [0x8062b48]
> 20: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb7385a36]
> 21: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1a6a1) [0x80626a1]
> Segmentation fault at address 0x1
> 
> I removed the [testing] repository and downgraded to:
> 
>  libgl-7.5.1-2  intel-dri-7.5.1-2  xf86-video-intel-2.8.1-1
> 
> I also rebuilt kernel init with mkinitcpio -p kernel26
> 
> Now X just hangs. Here is the dmesg output with the downgraded packages.
>  Let me know if you want me to go back to the [testing] packages. Thanks:
> 
> http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/dmesg.txt.1015
> 

Here are a few more error messages that I hope will help. The kdm.log seems to 
point to a problem with greeter:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/kdm.log.bz2

Here are also a few additional error from the errors.log file that are kernel 
and kdm related:

errors.log:

Oct 15 15:01:48 supersff kernel: [drm:i915_wait_request] *ERROR* something 
(likely vbetool) disabled interrupts, re-enab
ling
Oct 15 15:01:48 supersff kernel: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
Oct 15 15:01:48 supersff kernel: page table error
Oct 15 15:01:48 supersff kernel: PGTBL_ER: 0x00000010
Oct 15 15:01:48 supersff kernel: [drm:i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 
0x00000010, masking
Oct 15 15:01:48 supersff kernel: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
Oct 15 15:01:48 supersff kernel: page table error
Oct 15 15:01:48 supersff kernel: PGTBL_ER: 0x00000010
Oct 15 15:02:31 supersff kdm[1639]: X server died during startup
Oct 15 15:02:31 supersff kdm[1639]: X server for display :0 can't be started, 
session disabled
Oct 15 15:04:26 supersff nmbd[1479]: [2009/10/15 15:04:26,  0] 
nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(71)
Oct 15 15:04:26 supersff nmbd[1479]:   Got SIGTERM: going down...
Oct 15 15:04:59 supersff kernel: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
Oct 15 15:04:59 supersff kernel: page table error
Oct 15 15:04:59 supersff kernel: PGTBL_ER: 0x00000010
Oct 15 15:04:59 supersff kernel: [drm:i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 
0x00000010, masking
Oct 15 15:04:59 supersff kernel: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
Oct 15 15:04:59 supersff kernel: page table error
Oct 15 15:04:59 supersff kernel: PGTBL_ER: 0x00000010
Oct 15 15:04:59 supersff kernel: iTCO_wdt: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, 
reboot disabled by hardware

17:46 supersff:/var/log> grep kdm errors.log
Oct 14 14:23:03 supersff kdm: :0[1496]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 14 14:45:30 supersff kdm: :0[1543]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 14 15:28:56 supersff kdm: :0[1502]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 14 16:08:18 supersff kdm: :0[1522]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 14 16:15:04 supersff kdm: :0[1575]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 15 13:21:45 supersff kdm: :0[7402]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 15 13:28:56 supersff kdm: :0[1518]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 15 13:34:22 supersff kdm: :0[1497]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 15 13:36:07 supersff kdm: :0[1541]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 15 13:45:02 supersff kdm: :0[1575]: Abnormal termination of greeter for 
display :0, code 127, signal 0
Oct 15 15:02:31 supersff kdm[1639]: X server died during startup
Oct 15 15:02:31 supersff kdm[1639]: X server for display :0 can't be started, 
session disabled
Oct 15 15:29:30 supersff kdm_greet[1628]: Cannot load 
/usr/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory

Since downgrading the packages from from testing didn't help, I have re-enable 
testing and reinstalled intel-dri-7.6-1 xf86-video-intel-2.9.0-1 and 
libgl-7.6-1.

Any other ideas welcomed :p

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