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.
Regards,
David
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing [it was actually unstable, I have just put testing in
an unsucceessful attempt to fix things]
APT policy: (500, 'testing') [the same, see above]
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.3.2-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.6-1 A free implementation of the
OpenG
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.6-1 A free implementation of the
OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.6-1 The OpenGL utility library
(GLU)
ii x11-apps 7.4+2 X applications
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.4+1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.4+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+3 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-6 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-7 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+2X Window System font utility
progr
ii xinit 1.1.1-1X server initialisation tool
ii xkb-data 1.6-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB)
configu
ii xorg-docs-core1:1.4-5Core documentation for the
X.org X
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4+4the X.Org X server
xorg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages xorg suggests:
pn xorg-docs none (no description available)
X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux localhost 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25 22:16:56 UTC 2009 x86_64
Build Date: 13 October 2009 09:39:10AM
xorg-server 2:1.6.5-1 (jcris...@debian.org)
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat Oct 24 00:11:15 2009
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Parse error on line 12 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Ignoring obsolete keyword RgbPath.
(==) ServerLayout Layout0
(**) |--Screen Screen0 (0)
(**) | |--Monitor Monitor0
(**) | |--Device Device0
(**) |--Input Device Keyboard0
(**) |--Input Device Mouse0
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
