On Saturday 05 February 2011 20:10:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:54 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? > > > > I rebuilt nv but not evdev. Could that be responsible for this? I'm > > not sure how since the gdm welcome screen comes up and the keyboard > > works fine there for username/password input. > > I only mention it because in my experience I always have weird shit > happening when I upgrade xorg-server over a big version number change. > > And rebuilding everything that underpins xorg always fixes it. Including > drivers and mesa. > > In the old days when xorg was monolithic this never happened, as all the > drivers always got rebuilt anyway. Nowadays with xorg sources being > modular, we have to be a little more alert.
... and if you have just upgraded to xorg-server-1.9 you'll (probably) need an xorg.conf file. The old .fdi files are no longer being used. -- Regards, Mick
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