rawhide report: 20080802 changes (X server dies)

[Tom London]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 04:19:21PM -0700, Tom London wrote:
>> 0.211 generates a "black screen of death" for me with gdm boot
>> (runlevel 5).  Checking the logs, there is a repeatable kernel Oops in
>> the drm code that seems to savage X
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457598, kernel BUG at
>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c:144! invalid opcode: 0000).
>
> Thanks for a bug number although I see
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> instead of "invalid opcode", followed by further recursive oopses
> and memory obviously messed up beyond recognition.  I attached
> what I got to bz 457598.
>
>> However, booting 0.211 to runlevel 3 and then issuing a 'startx' works
>> for me (Thinkpad X60, Intel 945 graphics) without the Oops.
>
> That really does not matter in my case.  In both cases the same
> problems show up.
>
>   Michal
>
> p.s. A "new-and-improved" bugzilla seems to be quite messed up.
> It forgets logins, location of attachements and who knows what
> else.  A good question if it "remembered" to add CC to me even
> if this was clearly selected.  So far nothing showed so possibly
> this was forgotten too and I had to login four times in a row
> to add attachments/comments.  Did anybody test that thingy before
> deploying?
>
I made the "new Bugzilla" work better by logging out of BZ, removing
all the stored cookies for 'bugzilla.redhat.com', and then logging in
again.

No longer prompts me to login each time.....

tom
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Tom London