Bug 14105 - [945] X server crash
Summary: [945] X server crash
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 14130
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/intel (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium critical
Assignee: Mark Wagner
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2008-01-16 23:58 UTC by Mark Wagner
Modified: 2008-01-22 18:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
i915 platform:
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Attachments
Xorg.0.log from a failed restart of the X server (44.25 KB, text/plain)
2008-01-16 23:58 UTC, Mark Wagner
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Description Mark Wagner 2008-01-16 23:58:10 UTC
Created attachment 13758 [details]
Xorg.0.log from a failed restart of the X server

After the X server crashes (I'm still trying to get enough detail for a bug report on the crash), the server attempts to restart, but fails.  Instead, it goes into an infinite cycle of crash->start->crash->start.  I can interrupt the cycle by editing xorg.conf to use the VESA video driver, by editing xorg.conf to disable hardware acceleration in the Intel driver, or by rebooting.

In addition to the contents of Xorg.0.log, dmesg contains a series of lines like

mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining

one for each start of the X server.

Hardware:
Intel Q6600 CPU
ASUS P5E-VM HDMI mainboard
4GB RAM
Comment 1 Michael Fu 2008-01-18 05:54:44 UTC
Is this the first time you use X on this machine? 

the driver version is kind of old... 2.1.1. Would you be able to test version 2.2.0? 

How about 32bit version? 

thanks!
Comment 2 Mark Wagner 2008-01-18 20:46:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Is this the first time you use X on this machine? 

What do you mean by that?  I built this computer about two weeks ago.

> the driver version is kind of old... 2.1.1. Would you be able to test version
> 2.2.0? 

2.2.0 acts the same as 2.1.1 after a crash, is too slow for regular use, and leaves the display in an unusable state after exiting X.

> How about 32bit version? 

I'm running Gentoo Linux, so it would take me about a day to recompile the system for 32-bit operation.  I'd rather not go to the effort unless it's likely to help.
Comment 3 Michael Fu 2008-01-19 17:34:10 UTC
it should because the driver leave the gfx pipeline in a unconfig state. let's handle the "x server crash" bug first. could you please post more details of how your X got crashed?

I rename the bug title.
Comment 4 Mark Wagner 2008-01-22 18:24:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> it should because the driver leave the gfx pipeline in a unconfig state. let's
> handle the "x server crash" bug first. could you please post more details of
> how your X got crashed?
> 
> I rename the bug title.
> 

I've reported the crash as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14130
Comment 5 Michael Fu 2008-01-22 18:31:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14130 ***


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