xserver denies to work after upgrade: ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

[Hadmut Danisch]

Binary package hint: xorg

Hi,

my jaunty system was running properly, using the fglrx driver for the Radeon HD 3200 onboard Graphics.

After yesterday evening's ubuntu upgrade the X11 server does not start anymore, neither fglrx or radeon drivers work.

Unfortunately, there is no error message. It just says

ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

when running X -probeonly , and leaves the screen with garbage when starting as a regular daemon.

I did not yet find any reason for failure. Yesterdays update must have brought something in that brakes the system.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 23 18:52:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
LsHal:

Package: xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-16-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #55-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 20 19:48:24 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Maybe it's a bug in the x server:

11802 ioctl(11, MTRRIOC_GET_ENTRY, 0xbfc3ed6c) = 0
11802 ioctl(11, MTRRIOC_GET_ENTRY, 0xbfc3ed6c) = 0
11802 ioctl(11, MTRRIOC_GET_ENTRY, 0xbfc3ed6c) = 0
11802 ioctl(11, MTRRIOC_GET_ENTRY, 0xbfc3ed6c) = 0
11802 ioctl(11, MTRRIOC_GET_ENTRY, 0xbfc3ed6c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
11802 munmap(0xb7815000, 4096) = 0
11802 munmap(0xb765e000, 987136) = 0
11802 munmap(0xb763e000, 131072) = 0
11802 munmap(0xb7816000, 65536) = 0
11802 write(0, "(!!) RADEON(0): For information on using the multimedia capabilities\n\tof this ada"..., 119) = 119
11802 write(0, "(!!) RADEON(0): MergedFB support has been removed and replaced with xrandr 1.2 su"..., 87) = 87
11802 unlink("/tmp/.X0-lock") = 0
11802 shutdown(9, 2 /* send and receive */) = 0

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

...interestingly, today's karmic live cd release candidate's X11 works well.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi Hadmut,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Sorry, I can't test that at the moment. That particular machine is hosting a different operating system now, and as far as I know the fglrx is not part of the LiveCD.

[Bodinux (bodinux)]

No problem for 9.10 for me but the problem occured again after the install of 10.04 leading to a freeze of the computer (keyboard not responding anymore) on a black screen.

I tried to use the recovery boot on 10.04, finally leading to the prompt on tty1 after unsuccessfully trying to start Xfailsafe.

The traces of my log files are attached.

[Bodinux (bodinux)]

My traces can be found here (Xorg.0.log Xorg.1.log Xorg.failsafe.log Xorg.failsafe.log.old) :
http://paste.ubuntu.com/436023/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/436018/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/436019/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/436022/

[Bodinux (bodinux)]

I must say that sometimes it works (=boot), sometimes is doesn't on 10.04. On the same computer (another partition) 9.10, 9.04, 8.10, 8.04,7.10,7.04 boots all the time.

[Bodinux (bodinux)]

The problem occurs with my Radeon 9200 about four times out of five.

I switched to an nvidia card and I have no problem anymore.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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