>>>> 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? >> >> I rebuilt nv but not evdev. Could that be responsible for this? > > I can't answer that specifically, but you should definitely re-emerge > it anyway. > > What happens when you run /usr/bin/Xorg directly instead of with startx? > If Xorg still segfaults it may give you better error messages.
Thank you everyone. This was due to my using the nv driver on that system. I tried switching to nouveau but it wouldn't work with my onboard GeForce 6150SE nForce 430. I switched to the nvidia driver and all is working. - Grant
