Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-24 Thread Brenda J. Butler
The thing that returns ENOMEM in fork.c when this failure occurs is: dup_mm I still have to see why. To try distinguishing between the ENOMEM returns, I tried adding a flag to the return value (eg: retval = -(ENOMEM | 0x8000) retval = -(ENOMEM | 0x4000) retval = -(ENOMEM | 0x2000) etc b

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-22 Thread Brenda J. Butler
One more clue: in kern.log, when xserver is running under hypervisor, this appears: Nov 21 22:05:13 blueeyes kernel: [ 45.899070] Xorg:2949 map pfn expected mapping type writ e-back for d000-e000, got write-combining Nov 21 22:05:13 blueeyes kernel: [ 46.067758] Xorg:2949 freeing in

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:30:58AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > Please let me know if there is any other info you need. I'm not > sure what to do next. I've gotten the source for the kernel I'm using, and put a bunch of debug statements in the kernel/fork.c:do_fork routine (to distinguish bet

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-06 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > apt is being stupid and trying to satisfy build-deps for the backports > xorg-server. Try "apt-get build-dep xorg-server=2:1.7.7-13". Thank you! I also had to apt-get source xorg-server=2:1.7.7-13, as I had gotten the source packa

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 21:58:39 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 01:11:36AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 19:39:32 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > I can't help thinking I started out wrong, to be having all these problems > > > building a st

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-04 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 01:11:36AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 19:39:32 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > I can't help thinking I started out wrong, to be having all these problems > > building a stock debian package on a debian stable system. > > > It doesn't sound lik

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 19:39:32 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > On to the next hurdle: installing libudev-dev, because it didn't > > get installed with build-dep either. > > Installing libudev-dev, as well as x11proto-gl-dev was no problem. > > Then it wanted me to install x11proto-xf86d

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-04 Thread Brenda J. Butler
> On to the next hurdle: installing libudev-dev, because it didn't > get installed with build-dep either. Installing libudev-dev, as well as x11proto-gl-dev was no problem. Then it wanted me to install x11proto-xf86dri-dev, which I did, but the subsequent build attempt gave this error: co

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-04 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 06:19:53PM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > Cannot build: I probably did something wrong, but what? I had to install libtool: sudo apt-get install libtool libtool-doc Found the solution in ubuntu forums, now it's in debian bug tracker too : - ) On to the next hurdle

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-04 Thread Brenda J. Butler
Cannot build: I probably did something wrong, but what? did apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg then tried fakeroot debian/rules binary and had to install quilt and xutils-dev separately because they didn't get installed with build-dep, then this: bjb@blueeyes:~/projects/xserver-xorg/xorg-server-

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-04 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:00:33PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 13:41:02 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > > > Coming back to this - I see that the command line will be printed out > > if a debug flag is set - how do I set it? > > > > in ddxList.c on lines 206-207:

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 13:41:02 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > Coming back to this - I see that the command line will be printed out > if a debug flag is set - how do I set it? > > in ddxList.c on lines 206-207: > > if (xkbDebugFlags) > DebugF("[xkb] xkbList executes: %

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-11-04 Thread Brenda J. Butler
Coming back to this - I see that the command line will be printed out if a debug flag is set - how do I set it? in ddxList.c on lines 206-207: if (xkbDebugFlags) DebugF("[xkb] xkbList executes: %s\n",buf); How can I set xbkDebugFlags? I'd like to try the exact invocation at

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-10-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 09:57:23 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > I don't have any .xkb or .xkm files on my system (the xkbcomp man > page says it uses and produces files of those names) although I > do have a directory /usr/share/X11/xkb. > The .xkm files are created by xkbcomp in /tmp or /var/l

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-10-29 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:02:43PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 22:35:20 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > Package: xinit > > Version: 1.2.0-2 > > Severity: important > > File: /usr/bin/xinit > > > > > > using 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 I can run an X server, but using > >

Bug#646987: /usr/bin/xinit: xinit fails with xkbcomp could not be invoked

2011-10-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 22:35:20 -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > Package: xinit > Version: 1.2.0-2 > Severity: important > File: /usr/bin/xinit > > > using 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 I can run an X server, but using > 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (the same) under the Xen 4.0 hypervisor, I cannot. > > The Xorg.l