[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#649239: fglrx-driver: X crashes with fglrx

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-11-23 09:33, Craig Small wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 04:30:12PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>> That's strange.  The package has been multiarched, so files should be
>> in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.
> The files are in /usr/lib/fglrx
> 
> However the driver is most definitely looking for files there, I ran 
> a strace and it clearly is trying.  Running strings on fglrx_drv.so
> also showed this directory.  That is even the file in the source
> archive at xpic_64a/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> 
> I have the entire strace output, but the bit where it all goes bad is
> just a few lines:
> 
> 11744 write(0, "(II) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Disc"..., 54) = 54
> 11744 lstat("/usr/lib64/fglrx", 0x7fff34855930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 11744 write(0, "[  2286.685] ", 13)     = 13
> 11744 write(2, "(EE) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Cann"..., 86) = 86
> 11744 write(0, "(EE) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Cann"..., 86) = 86
> 11744 write(0, "[  2286.686] ", 13)     = 13
> 11744 write(2, "(EE) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Fail"..., 61) = 61
> 11744 write(0, "(EE) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Fail"..., 61) = 61
> 11744 write(0, "[  2286.686] ", 13)     = 13
> 11744 write(0, "(WW) fglrx(0): PreInit PowerXpre"..., 42) = 42
> 11744 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> 
> I even tried building the packages myself to see if that helped, it
> didn't :(

What happens if you
  mkdir /usr/lib64/fglrx
Run strace again - what files are accessed next?

Andreas