On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just installed lenny on a 12" PowerBook G4 from the 5.0.4 netinst > CD. (Yeah, I know that 5.0.5 is out. I downloaded and burned the CD > a couple of months ago, and just got around to installing it today. I > like netinst because it lets me get away with procrastinating like > that.) > > The installation and initial boot went just fine, but X11 segfaults on > startup. I tried regenerating xorg.conf with "dpkg --reconfigure > xorg-xserver" and get the same result. > > Here is the stdout+stderr of running X: [...] > Backtrace: > 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x98) [0x10083428] > 1: [0x100344] > 2: [0xbffff8ec] > 3: > /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so(XAAFillMono8x8PatternRectsScreenOrigin+0xec) > [0xf63aaec] > 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so(XAAPaintWindow+0x6a8) [0xf649808] > 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xf682f60] > 6: X [0x101584ec] > 7: X(compPaintWindowBackground+0x78) [0x100dc248] > 8: X(miWindowExposures+0x1e8) [0x100fb0e8] > 9: X [0x100b4dc8] > 10: X(MapWindow+0x3a4) [0x10031f24] > 11: X(InitRootWindow+0x130) [0x100320f0] > 12: X(main+0x434) [0x1002bc34] > 13: /lib/libc.so.6 [0xfb93704] > 14: /lib/libc.so.6 [0xfb938c0] > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting
Found a workaround. All I had to do was set UseFBDev = false in /etc/X11.xorg.conf. Now X starts OK. I've just opened a bug. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
