Modular X server bugs, annoyances and solutions (Part 1)

[miknight]

They didn't for me...

I was posting this as general advice for anyone who is experiencing the same trouble I was. You probably don't even have the IPv6 USE flag set anyway.

[Ricky]

For the record, things that also do not work:
* Upgrading to xorg-server-0.99.4-r2
* Not loading the dri module
* Disabling composite/render
* Going back to 2.6.14-gentoo

Idle still timing out, engine still infinitely resetting...

[irondog]

iotc247, widremann, what happens when you do this:

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# export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB #(give a correct path to the file!!)
# startx 

Otherwise. Isn that file empty or something else very unlikely?

[zomps]

i did quick hack for the screen resulotion change issue

mv /usr/lib/X11/xkb/compat{,_old}

i know it isnt right, but least i can use X now

[nesl247]

iotc247, widremann, what happens when you do this:

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# export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB #(give a correct path to the file!!)
# startx 

Otherwise. Isn that file empty or something else very unlikely?

If I stuck that in the local.start file that would do it permanently until they fix that right? Because that did work perfectly.

[ardnut]

i did quick hack for the screen resulotion change issue

mv /usr/lib/X11/xkb/compat{,_old}

i know it isnt right, but least i can use X now

Would that fix this behaviour?
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-410021.html

[zomps]

temporally yes, but it isnt the right way and i havent figured how to fix it jet

[irondog]

If I stuck that in the local.start file that would do it permanently until they fix that right? Because that did work perfectly.

If it worked, i think the environment var is set incorrectly by some script on your computer. So, it's not a bug.

Normally this environment variable isn't set at all and libX11 looks for XKeysymDB in the right place (it defaults to a working value here).
So, couldn't you just do a normal boot and check your environment variables and look if XKeysymDB is set? If it is, please post it here. We must check which package causes this problem.

Check the output of (and post it):

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# env

[Bonkie]

am I the only nvidia card user who experiences problems with the driver after xorg rc3 upgrade ?

[sanmartin]

am I the only nvidia card user who experiences problems with the driver after xorg rc3 upgrade ?

My direct rendering seems to be dead with rc3. Are you having any problems other than that?

[sanmartin]

I've got some new observations of xmodmap behavior in rc3...

So my MX900 mouse has like a thousand buttons on it. Actually I can think of 9 possible things to count as buttons. Anyway though, in addition to being able to use the scroll wheel to move up and down there are buttons above and below the scroll wheel that do the same thing. And it works... sorta. When I open up to my homepage I can scroll up and down with the scrool wheel and both buttons (correctly). But once I've linked somewhere else and there's back history in Firefox it (the up button specifically) activates the back function every time until I reach the end of history and then it's used for scrolling again. The scroll wheel itself and the down button are unaffected. The down button doesn't try to do forward history if there is some, so I don't know why up would try go back.

Also, xmodmap thinks I have 13 buttons. I have buttons = "9" in my mouse section but it doesn't believe me. And the map I have to do now is different from before:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 8 9 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13"
used to be
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 8 9"

seems to give me close-to-correct functionality (with zaxismapping = "6 7")

[Konsti]

Well, yesterday a dozen new packages were updated of the modular X server.
Now emacs complains

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Warning: no fonts matching `-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available [2 times]

What is this? I had in ~/.Xdefaults

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Emacs*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

working perfect for a while.

[ardnut]

temporally yes, but it isnt the right way and i havent figured how to fix it jet

That doesn't work for me, still can't use the keyboard - every key I press on it just changes resolution.

[nesl247]

irondog, I here is my env.. This has XKEYSYMDB in it because otherwise I would not be posting it here.. When I did not export it however it does not exist in env so you can ignore it I guess...

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MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.91.0.4/man: \ /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.2/man:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man
SSH_AGENT_PID=9940
HOSTNAME=alex32
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB
TERM=xterm
DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID=
SHELL=/bin/bash
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/alex/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=9937
WINDOWID=41943118
QTDIR=/usr/qt/3
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla
ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant-core
USER=alex
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05; \ 37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01; \ 32:*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01; \ 31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.rar=01;31: \ *.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01; \ 35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mng=01; \ 35:*.xcf=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01; \ 35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01; \ 35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00; \
32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.mp3=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00; \ 36:*.au=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.aac=00;36:
PRELINK_PATH_MASK=/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10:/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8:/lib/modules:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/lib/wine:\ 
/usr/lib/valgrind:*.la:Firefox_wallpaper.png:*.py:*.pl:*.pm:*.sh:*.xml:*.xslt:*.a:*.js:/usr/lib/klibc
GDK_USE_XFT=1
CCACHE_DIR=/var/tmp/ccache
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-d1I1Yv/socket
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-DEPKUX9920/agent.9920
SESSION_MANAGER=local/alex32:/tmp/.ICE-unix/9920
USERNAME=alex
PAGER=/usr/bin/less
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/splash
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.0.2:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/bin: \
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/jre/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/NX/bin
GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local
PWD=/home/alex
JAVA_HOME=/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02
JAVAC=/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/bin/javac
EDITOR=/bin/nano
QMAKESPEC=linux-g++
KDEDIRS=/usr
GDMSESSION=gnome
HOME=/home/alex
SHLVL=1
JDK_HOME=/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02
PRELINK_PATH=
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default
LOGNAME=alex
PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/portage/pym
LESS=-R -M --shift 5
CVS_RSH=ssh
GCC_SPECS=
CLASSPATH=.
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-GOW5SKUVRN,guid=053f9743986c2bd5516f23d718278200
LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s
INFOPATH=/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.91.0.4/info: \
/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.2/info
DISPLAY=:0.0
OPENGL_PROFILE=nvidia
CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env \
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
XAUTHORITY=/home/alex/.Xauthority
_=/usr/bin/env

edit by nixnut: inserted some breaks to prevent mile wide html page

[irondog]

irondog, I here is my env.. This has XKEYSYMDB in it because otherwise I would not be posting it here.. When I did not export it however it does not exist in env so you can ignore it I guess...

Are you really sure it isn't listed when you don't export it? You must be kidding me Are we running the same code?

Could you run this:

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# rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/libX11-0.99.4
# ebuild /usr/portage/x11-libs/libX11/libX11-0.99.4.ebuild compile

Please, show me:
/var/tmp/portage/libX11-0.99.4/work/libX11-0.99.4/src/config.h

I'm especially interested in all lines that have this string:

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XKEYSYMDB

or

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KEYSYMDB

[nesl247]

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/* src/config.h.  Generated by configure.  */
/* src/config.h.in.  Generated from configure.ac by autoheader.  */

/* Define to 1 if `struct sockaddr_in' has a `sin_len' member */
/* #undef BSD44SOCKETS */

/* Has getresuid() & getresgid() functions */
#define HASGETRESUID 1

/* Has issetugid() function */
/* #undef HASSETUGID */

/* Has shm*() functions */
#define HAS_SHM 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `authdes_create' function. */
#define HAVE_AUTHDES_CREATE 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `authdes_seccreate' function. */
/* #undef HAVE_AUTHDES_SECCREATE */

/* Define to 1 if you have the <dlfcn.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1

/* Use dlopen to load shared libraries */
#define HAVE_DLOPEN 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <dl.h> header file. */
/* #undef HAVE_DL_H */

/* Define to 1 if you have the <inttypes.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <memory.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1

/* Use shl_load to load shared libraries */
/* #undef HAVE_SHL_LOAD */

/* Define to 1 if you have the <stdint.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <stdlib.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <strings.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <string.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `strtol' function. */
#define HAVE_STRTOL 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/stat.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/types.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <unistd.h> header file. */
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1

/* Support IPv6 for TCP connections */
/* #undef IPv6 */

/* Disable XLOCALEDIR environment variable */
/* #undef NO_XLOCALEDIR */

/* Name of package */
#define PACKAGE "libX11"

/* Define to the address where bug reports for this package should be sent. */
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg"

/* Define to the full name of this package. */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "libX11"

/* Define to the full name and version of this package. */
#define PACKAGE_STRING "libX11 0.99.4"

/* Define to the one symbol short name of this package. */
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libX11"

/* Define to the version of this package. */
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.99.4"

/* Define as the return type of signal handlers (`int' or `void'). */
/* #undef RETSIGTYPE */

/* Support Secure RPC ("SUN-DES-1") authentication for X11 clients */
#define SECURE_RPC 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the ANSI C header files. */
#define STDC_HEADERS 1

/* Support TCP socket connections */
#define TCPCONN 1

/* Support UNIX socket connections */
#define UNIXCONN 1

/* Split some i18n functions into loadable modules */
/* #undef USE_DYNAMIC_LC */

/* Use the X cursor library to load cursors */
#define USE_DYNAMIC_XCURSOR 1

/* poll() function is available */
#define USE_POLL 1

/* Version number of package */
#define VERSION "0.99.4"

/* Location of libX11 data */
#define X11_DATADIR "/usr/share/X11"

/* Include support for XCMS */
#define XCMS 1

/* Location of error message database */
#define XERRORDB "/usr/share/X11/XErrorDB"

/* Enable XF86BIGFONT extension */
#define XF86BIGFONT 1

/* Use XKB */
#define XKB 1

/* Location of keysym database */
#define XKEYSYMDB "/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB"

/* support for X Locales */
#define XLOCALE 1

/* Location of libX11 locale data */
#define XLOCALEDIR "/usr/lib/X11/locale"

/* Whether libX11 is compiled with thread support */
#define XTHREADS 

/* Whether libX11 needs to use MT safe API's */
#define XUSE_MTSAFE_API 

[widremann]

iotc247, widremann, what happens when you do this:

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# export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB #(give a correct path to the file!!)
# startx 

Otherwise. Isn that file empty or something else very unlikely?

Doing that once seemed to fix it. When I logged in from a different terminal without exporting that variable the problem was also gone. Works with normal user too.

I am getting another error message that's a little disconcerting:
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

This appears when the X server quits. As with the previous issue, it doesn't seem to cause any problems while using X.

Also, even though I have emerged libXTrap, I still get errors about X not being able to find the module xtrap.

[irondog]

in /var/tmp/portage/libX11-0.99.4/work/libX11-0.99.4/src/StrKeysym.c

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        dbname = getenv("XKEYSYMDB");
        if (!dbname)
            dbname = KEYSYMDB;
        keysymdb = XrmGetFileDatabase(dbname);

The only (impossible) thing that could be happening is that the KEYSYMDB value is incorrect. The only way this could be happening is that the StrKeysym.c file is compiled with -DKEYSYMDB="some_incorrect_path" (which simply won't happen when building modular).

So, you probably would have to debug the code and buildsystem to resolve this issue (You need to have C knowledge to do so). I can't "fix" this because the code simply works here.

[nesl247]

Well I am not worried. The whole export thing works so I will leave it alone until they come out with the final release or rc4..

[irondog]

Doing that once seemed to fix it. When I logged in from a different terminal without exporting that variable the problem was also gone. Works with normal user too.

Hmn. For you the same question: Does it ever work without XKEYSYMDB is set? (which should be the case)

So, double check the output of env before running startx.

Well I am not worried. The whole export thing works so I will leave it alone until they come out with the final release or rc4..

I would rather have it fixed today than having to wait for developper to run into this same problem. If nobody but you has the problem.....

Remember: We are the Beta testers able to test these Release Candidates on a very wide range of setups.

[Bonkie]

My direct rendering seems to be dead with rc3. Are you having any problems other than that?

Yeah, cant load the nivida kernel module anymore after nvidia-kernel update, but it doesn't seem xorg related...

[Kandian]

My direct rendering seems to be dead with rc3. Are you having any problems other than that?

Yeah, cant load the nivida kernel module anymore after nvidia-kernel update, but it doesn't seem xorg related...

I had problems with the new (8xxx) nVidia drivers and rc3 myself. Some things to check:

• If you cannot load the kernel module, ensure that you are compiling it with the same kernel you compiled your kernel
• If you are on amd64, make sure that /etc/env.d/03opengl is pointing to /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib32 (eselect-opengl is pretty broken for amd64)
• Look through /var/log/Xorg.0.log and check for lines starting with EE. I had a problem where X was loading the xorg GLX libraries rather than the nVidia ones. If that is the case for you, try adding a line in the Files section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf like: ModulePath "/usr/lib/opengl/nvidia"
  Make sure it is before the default module path

[widremann]

Doing that once seemed to fix it. When I logged in from a different terminal without exporting that variable the problem was also gone. Works with normal user too.

Hmn. For you the same question: Does it ever work without XKEYSYMDB is set? (which should be the case)

So, double check the output of env before running startx.

The problem seems to be completely gone. Not sure how, not sure why. I won't ask questions, as long as it works .

[metalfan]

upgrade yesterday to rc3, but my log still shows me:

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X Window System Version 6.99.99.902 (7.0.0 RC 2)
Release Date: 09 November 2005

?

greets
metalfan

[Xake]

Hmm, strange. Did the update to rc3 along with some updated packages from gnome 2.12 yesterday. I now have one big issue: for some reason the user I log into x with have big problems (icons not displayring, errormessage from the gnome-configuration-something and so on and so on).
How ever I can start and log any user into a nested widnow and everything for them works nice no matter what.

Any one who could give me a hint on where to start poke?