[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#498430: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx: logout->end session crashes xserver

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Wednesday, 10. September 2008 01:07:03 Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx
> Version: 96.43.07-1
>
> I'm using the nvidia drivers from unstable on an up to date Lenny system.
>
> Logout->end session crashes the xserver.
>
> Switching to the vesa driver solves the problem, so I'm guessing it's a
> nvidia driver issue.
>
> The end of the Xorg log is
>
>   (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
>   (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
>   (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
>   (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1600x1200"
>
>   Backtrace:
>   0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c924e]
>   1: [0xb7f0b400]
>   2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so(_nv001216X+0xe5)
> [0xb711b701] 3: [0x1]
>
>   Fatal server error:
>   Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
>   Freeing resource id=39 which isn't there.

On Tuesday, 25. November 2008 02:50:37 Ashutosh Mahajan wrote:
> a temporary fix is to use:
> TerminateServer=true
>
> in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc. this restarts xserver after every session and
> avoids the crash.

New legacy nvidia driver packages 96.43.18-1 were just uploaded to unstable. 
You may want to try them together with a current kernel and Xorg and see, 
whether the problem still exists (with the workaround disabled).


Andreas