Hi Brice
> Any news about this? Did you have a chance to look at where the segfault
> occurs so that we know whether the bug is in the server or in fluxbox?
I made a fluxbox-dbg and installed xserver-xorg-code-dbg,
then installed the problematic xserver, ran
startx /usr/bin/xterm
and got an x
Brice
> You can't run gdb from a terminal in X when debugging something related
> to X.
Silly me, of course
> One possible cause for the problem could be that Xserver 1.3 is known to
> not report Xinerama capabilities correctly, which can confuse clients.
> If this wrong Xserver behavior causes
Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.2-5
Severity: important
Hi
The last update broke X on my sparc -- I get (as you can see below)
an error about AIGLX, but this is spurious, if I uncomment the
"AIGLX false" serverflag then the I get the same behaviour (startx
gives a flash of grey, then exits) b
Hi Julian
Thanks for the amazingly fast response!
Sounds like X starts up properly but your session exits. Anything
relevant in ~/.xsession-errors?
Nothing that looks suspicious: apart from some fluxbox config-not-set
warnings which I've grepped out:
cat .xsession-errors | grep -v "Failed t
Julian
Further to this -- rolling back X to stable:
X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux nexus 2.6.18-jjg #1 SMP Wed Feb 21
10:08:20 GMT 2007 sparc64
Hi Brice
How do you start you X session? does it help if you stop gdm/xdm/kdm (or
whatever is trying to use X) and just start X from a VT console with
Afraid not. I usually use gdm, but when I rebooted and
started the new X for the first time it failed and
dropped me into the console. Thereaft
Hi Brice
Some more on this: With the new X reinstalled I deleted lines
up my .xsession file until it worked - but it didn't. I find
that fluxbox itself seems to be the problem
startx /usr/bin/fluxbox
fails as usual
startx /usr/bin/blackbox
works just fine. I tried some stracing but there
Hi Brice
Before I reassign to fluxbox, please try
startx /usr/bin/xterm
then run fluxbox from the xterm in there and tell us what happens. If
the problem is only fluxbox related, you should get your X and xterm
back after fluxbox exited on startup.
Looks like it is: fluxbox fails to start w
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