Apparently, though unproven, at 00:26 on Saturday 05 February 2011, Grant did opine thusly:
> Yesterday I caught up with portage and updated quite a few packages on > a remote workstation. The system hadn't been updated for about a > month. The updates included some xorg stuff and some xfce4 stuff. > Today when the workstation's user logged in via gdm, she clicked the > xfce4 "Migrate Config" option, something weird happened, and she ended > up back on the gdm welcome screen. Now whenever she logs is via gdm, > the screen immediately goes black and she is routed back to the gdm > welcome screen again. When I have grsecurity enabled I get this in > dmesg: > > Segmentation fault occurred at 000068e453633fdc in > /usr/bin/Xorg[X:4777] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent > /usr/sbin/gdm-binary[gdm:4775] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:1010/1002 When you upgraded x.org, did you also rebuild it's drivers? There should have been an elog about it, it's not something that protage can tarck easily as the driver's version numbers did not change. > > She also tried skipping gdm and issuing startxfce4 manually but it > fails in a similar way and displays "disconnected from session > manager". I get this in Xorg.0.log: > > Backtrace: > [ 74.799] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x49eeb8] > [ 74.799] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x62849) [0x462849] > [ 74.799] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x64727eac2000+0xf3f0) > [0x64727ead13f0] [ 74.800] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so > (0x64727bed7000+0x112d0) [0x64727bee82d0] > [ 74.800] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libshadowfb.so > (0x64727a682000+0x3db2) [0x64727a685db2] > [ 74.800] 5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2da29) [0x42da29] > [ 74.800] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2eda9) [0x42eda9] > [ 74.800] 7: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2475a) [0x42475a] > [ 74.800] 8: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x64727dcb2ba6] > [ 74.800] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x242f9) [0x4242f9] > [ 74.800] Segmentation fault at address 0x64727462bfdc > [ 74.800] > Fatal server error: > [ 74.800] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting > > and when grsecurity is enabled I get this in dmesg: > > Segmentation fault occurred at 000064727462bfdc in > /usr/bin/Xorg[X:4647] uid/euid:1003/0 gid/egid:1010/1010, parent > /usr/bin/xinit[xinit:4646] uid/euid:1003/1003 gid/egid:1010/1010 > > I have tried disabling all security options in the kernel but I get > the same results with the exception of the dmesg info. I tried > re-emerging xorg-server, xf86-video-nv, xinit, and gdm. Strangely, > after re-emerging xorg-server and xinit there were files to change in > etc-update. I don't see how that's possible since I'm caught up with > emerge -DuN world. revdep-rebuild comes up with nothing. I'm running > an emerge -e world now. It's weird that the gdm welcome screen will > load (which implies xorg) but nothing afterward. Any ideas? > > - Grant -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
