Bug#516567: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: X-Server repeatedly crashes

[Brice Goglin]

Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
> Brice Goglin wrote:
>   
>> Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
>>     
>>> with this mail I send you the requested X.err and X.out (as described
>>> above). X.err really consists of a bunch of errors and also fatal errors.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Did the server actually crash here? Did you check the end if Xorg.0.log
>> before restarting X?
>>     
>
> Hi, the problem is, that I couldn't switch back to console to save the
> Xorg.0.log. And also my Knoppix live discs are too old to recognize my
> harddisc.I'm just getting a new live disc to rescue the Xorg.0.log from
> beeing overwritten. But it will take some time.
> The current files I just sent you, I got by "crashing" the server ->
> server freezes -> computer restarted by power-switch (nothing else
> worked..) -> got the files after reboot. Now, when starting with startx
> instead of gdm the X-Server does not reboot automatically anymore but
> simply freezes.
>   

Do you have ssh access to the machine? If so, launch X as usual, login
through ssh from another machine, and run
    gdb -p $(pidof X)
inside the ssh session. When X crashes, enter "bt full" in gdb and send
us the output.

Brice