Xorg crashes...

Justin P. Mattock justinmattock at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 10:25:33 PST 2010


On 01/07/10 08:45, Ryan Daly wrote:
> On 01/06/2010 10:34 PM, Ryan Daly wrote:
>> On 01/06/2010 10:26 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>>> the module should work.. hopefully their the same arch's
>>>
>>> as for the next step:
>>> try starting the server from a TTY instead of through gdm
>>> (as stated by peter hutterer from the other post try this and then go
>>> from there).
>>>
>>> keep in mind evdev might be fine, at this point it could be
>>> anything.(so hopefully doing the above gives some useful info
>>> to target the problem).
>>
>> Yep.  A 'uname -m' reports i686 on both systems and a 'file' on
>> evdev_drv.so reports both are identical (only I didn't strip mine).
>>
>> I will start the server from a tty and see what happens.  The system in
>> question is at work, so I won't be doing anything more on this until
>> tomorrow.  Thanks very much for the help you've given so far.  I'll post
>> an update when I have one.
>
> Bad news...  I started X from a tty and still had it exit on me.  The
> only thing worth noting from the output is below:
>
> <Xorg.out>
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>   >  Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but<RALT>  has 2 symbols
>   >                    Ignoring extra symbols
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>   >  Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but<RALT>  has 2 symbols
>   >                    Ignoring extra symbols
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>   >  Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but<RALT>  has 2 symbols
>   >                    Ignoring extra symbols
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>   >  Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but<RALT>  has 2 symbols
>   >                    Ignoring extra symbols
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> xinit:  connection to X server lost.
>
> waiting for X server to shut down  ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
> </Xorg.out>
>
> I know it says these errors aren't fatal to the X server, but could they
> be causing me problems?
>

as for xkbcomp doing a quick google
gave me this:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/269931

but still don't see that this is the
culprit.

Justin P. Mattock




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