Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem. On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root - it acquires elevated permissions when you run it, and this breaks the process tracing (and it seems odd to me (though I haven't tried) that you were able to debug it).
You could try repeating your valgrind test as root, maybe. Cheers Tom 2010/1/11 Ryan Daly <[email protected]>: > On 01/08/2010 04:13 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >> On 01/08/10 13:05, Ryan Daly wrote: >>> On 01/08/2010 03:56 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >>>> gripes!! valgrind breaks with >>>> libc 2.11.90(I'll see later on this), >>>> >>>> In your case what does valgrind >>>> output's say when the crash occurs? >>> >>> Did you use any options with valgrind or just 'valgrind startx'? >>> >> >> not yet(breaks with libc2.11.90) >> >> if I can get this thing fixed then I can see. >> but from past experiences I think theirs a log file valgrind creates. >> i.g. >> valgrind --tool=memcheck(or other) --log-file=(some-file) programname >> >> (as soon as I figure/find something I can run valgrind over here to >> see what it produces) >> >> you never know could find something. > > Maybe I'm starting this wrong, but I'm getting the following: > > > prompt> valgrind --log-file=/usr2/tmp/valgrind.out --trace-children=yes > startx > > exec: 5: /usr/bin/X11/X: Permission denied > giving up. > /usr/bin/xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect > to X server > /usr/bin/xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > > I tried this late last week, but the child process of startx didn't get > traced, which doesn't seem like it would be of much value. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > This message and any files transmitted within are intended > solely for the addressee or its representative and may > contain company sensitive information. If you are not the > intended recipient, notify the sender immediately and delete > this message. Publication, reproduction, forwarding, or > content disclosure is prohibited without the consent of the > original sender and may be unlawful. > > Concurrent Technologies Corporation and its Affiliates. > www.ctc.com 1-800-282-4392 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
