Re: [gentoo-user] Debugging X

[Daniel Beecham]

Dale wrote:
> forgottenwizard wrote:
>> I'm having a problem getting X to work. It is seg faulting on me, and
>> despite countless revdep-rebuilds and emerge -e world, it still doesn't
>> work.
>>
>> It dies after the cursor shows up, spitting this backtrace and output.
>> Sorry if the formatting sucks. The last line is probably refering to the
>> fact I tried to run it from within screen, so if that could cause a
>> problem say so, and tell me how the heck to get a log of this output
>> (since startx > log.txt doesn't work)
>>
>> #--- startx output ---#
>>
>> X Window System Version 1.3.0
>> Release Date: 19 April 2007
>> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
>> Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
>> Current Operating System: Linux localhost 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP
>> PREEMPT Fri Aug 1 21:56:38 CDT 2008 x86_64
>> Build Date: 22 July 2008
>>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>>             to make sure that you have the latest version.
>>         Module Loader present
>>         Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==)
>>         default setting,
>>                 (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II)
>>             informational,
>>                 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not
>>             implemented, (??) unknown.
>>             (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log",
>>             Time: Wed Aug 20 00:11:37 2008
>>             (==) Using config file:
>>             "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>>             (WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section
>>             for instance (BusID PCI:0:1:3) found
>>             (II) Module already built-in
>>             The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp)
>>             reports:
>>             > Warning:          Multiple names for
>>             > keycode 211
>>             >                   Using <I211>,
>>             >                   ignoring <AB11>
>>             Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the
>>             X server
>>                 Backtrace:
>> 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x6d) [0x49690d]
>> 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7fae2c0a4430]
>> 2: X(NumMotionEvents+0x12) [0x447822]
>> 3: X(CreateConnectionBlock+0x53) [0x439623]
>> 4: X(main+0x658) [0x43a168]
>> 5: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x7fae2c091b74]
>> 6: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x229) [0x439259]
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>>
>> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections
>> giving up.
>> xinit:  Connection reset by peer (errno 104):  unable to connect to X
>> server
>> xinit:  No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
>>
>> #--- end ---#
>>
>> I've brought this to #x (or xorg, whichever the X support channel in
>> freenode is), #linux, #gentoo, and the forums. I'm at a bit of a loss as
>> to what the problem is, or how to go about trying to find out what is
>> the problem.
>>
>>
>
> If I read this correctly, it appears that it can not find the keyboard
> or something.  This is what makes me think that:  "The XKEYBOARD
> keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Warning: Multiple names for >
> keycode 211".
>
> In your make.conf, do you have a line that is something like this:
>
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
>
> Also make sure you have something like the following in your xorg.conf
> file:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>    Driver         "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>    Identifier     "Mouse0"
>    Driver         "mouse"
>    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
>    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
>    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
>
> This may not have anything to do with the problem but it is something
> that didn't look right to me.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Nah, that's not the problem, aas you can see here; "Errors from xkbcomp 
are not fatal to the X server"

/ Daniel.