severity 552182 important thank you
David wrote: > Package: xorg > Version: 1:7.4+4 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software > > Today I upgraded sid (i.e., "from sid to sid") after having being > about one month away from my computer. After rebooting, the boot > process complaint that the root device was damaged, but fsck gave an > error as well (maybe this has nothing to do with the bug, but just in > case). After rebooting, things were apparently OK. But further > problems: some application launched in KDE4, such as icedove or > openoffice, could not write to my home directory or to /tmp (although > my user had writing permissions), so such applications were useless > (maybe this has nothing to do with the bug, but just in case). > > I tried rebooting and then everything broke. The login manager (kdm, > then gdm) showed, I could make the log in, the screen went black for a > second (as though the desktop were starting) but then back to the > login manager (as though the initialization of the desktop had > failed). The login was OK because I tried introducing a wrong password > and the login manager complaint. > > I had the same problem with kdm and gdm, and when trying to start kde > or xfce. I had the same problem both with the nvidia and nv drivers. I > could successfully log in in a text terminal, by the way. > > I tried enquiring on the IRC chat, and although several unhappy people > treated me as though I were stupid, they gave me the clue to see that > the problem was in the X server. I am attaching Xorg.0.log. > > I am running reportbug after having started with an OpenSuse LiveCD > and made chroot (so I am suppressing the information about the kernel, > locales, etc, to prevent confusion). I am afraid I will not be able to > provide further information, because I need the computer working so > (unless you are so clever to fix the bug by my next working day :-) ) > I will format. Please send the log of X when using the nv driver (we don't care about the nvidia binary) and please save it *after* a crash (likely /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old with a backtrace at the end). Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
