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Somehow I cannot start my X

I do startx then my screen goes blank, I see native X cursor, after that xterm flashes for a second and right after it system fail back to console with the output below:

Code:

padawan@Serenity ~ $ startx

xauth:  creating new authority file /home/padawan/.serverauth.4085





X.Org X Server 1.5.3

Release Date: 5 November 2008

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 x86_64

Current Operating System: Linux Serenity 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 #4 SMP Mon Mar 2 12:38:49 MSK 2009 x86_64

Build Date: 03 March 2009  01:57:10PM



        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org

        to make sure that you have the latest version.

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,

        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,

        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Mar  3 14:29:10 2009

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@7:0:1) found

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@7:0:1) found

xinit:  Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11):  Cannot register with ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.CkConnector.Error: Unable to open session: Launch 

helper

exited with unknown return code 0



Backtrace:

0: X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4e1676]

1: X(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x4742a9]

2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f3c9703c270]

3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxDisplayShadowIsShadowPixmap+0x22) [0x7f3c95f9ac72]

4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//glesx.so [0x7f3c932482e3]

5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libxaa.so(XAAComposite+0x196) [0x7f3c951c5946]

6: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0x7f3c951e15d7]

7: X [0x521883]

8: X(miTrapezoids+0x204) [0x5084f4]

9: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0x7f3c951e1310]

10: X [0x5119e6]

11: X(Dispatch+0x334) [0x449354]

12: X(main+0x43a) [0x4311ba]

13: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x7f3c970295e4]

14: X [0x430599]



Fatal server error:

Caught signal 11.  Server aborting



xterm:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"

XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

      after 533 requests (533 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"

      after 128 requests (53 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

xterm:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"

xinit:  connection to X server lost.

And another strange thing is that text input cursor stuck in the middle of the screen, but no X-related processes are running! And I cannot get rid of it until reboot

Logs do not show any errors (drivers and xorg-server compiled with debug option)

Distro: Gentoo, kernel 2.6.28-r2, latest ATI-drivers installed, card ATI HD 2600

Full text of /var/log/Xorg.0.log located here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfw4qmbp_20d7jwhhc

This is just a wild guess but I use the fglrx driver also but I remember vaguely that I had to disable AIGLX for it to work. Could that be the problem?
cheers,
jdk

AIGLX already disabled, but fglrx force it's loading (you can see that in Xorg.0.log)

Here is my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"

        Identifier    "Simple Layout"

        Screen      0  "Screen 1" 0 0

        InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

        InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection



Section "Files"

EndSection



Section "Module"

        Load  "dbe"          # Double buffer extension

        SubSection "extmod"

                Option            "omit xfree86-dga"  # don't initialise the DGA extension

        EndSubSection

        Load  "freetype"

        Load  "dri"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier  "Keyboard1"

        Driver      "kbd"

        Option            "AutoRepeat" "500 30"

        Option            "XkbRules" "xorg"

        Option            "XkbModel" "pc104"

        Option            "XkbLayout" "us,ru(winkeys),ua(winkeys)"

        Option            "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier  "Mouse1"

        Driver      "mouse"

        Option            "Protocol" "Auto"        # Auto detect

        Option            "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

        Option            "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

        Identifier  "sm957df"

        HorizSync    30.0 - 96.0

        VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0

EndSection



Section "Device"

        Identifier  "Standard VGA"

        Driver      "vga"

        VendorName  "Unknown"

        BoardName  "Unknown"

EndSection



Section "Device"

        Identifier  "h2600"

        Driver      "fglrx"

        VideoRam    524288

        Option            "DRI" "true"

        Option            "XAANoOffScreenPixmaps" "true"

        Option            "VideoOverlay" "on"

        Option            "TexturedVideo" "on"

        Option            "Textured2D" "on"

        Option            "TexturedXrender" "true"

        Option            "ForceMonitors" "notv"

        Option            "UseFastTLS" "1"

        Option            "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

        BusID      "PCI:7:0:0"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

        Identifier "Screen 1"

        

        Device    "h2600"

        Monitor    "sm957df"

        DefaultDepth    24

        SubSection "Display"

                Viewport  0 0

                Depth    8

                Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        EndSubSection

        SubSection "Display"

                Viewport  0 0

                Depth    16

                Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        EndSubSection

        SubSection "Display"

                Viewport  0 0

                Depth    24

                Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "DRI"

        Mode        0666

EndSection

Section "Extensions"

        Option            "Composite" "true"

EndSection

I cannot understand why I can see fully loaded xterm for a second and then all crashes.

As I understand drivers are configured properly because X starts as it should, but why this crash happens?

And why if I do startx for the second time in a row without reboot, I see only big black screen and neither ctrl+alt+F1, not ctrl+alt+backspace nor even ctrl+alt+del cannot bring system out of that state

Wooohaa!!! Finaly I've launched that damn GUI!

What I did:

* added dri support to kernel as module (although in one of articles on this issue guys told to disable it at all)
* emerge -uDN world
* etc-update
* revdep-rebuild
* removed all X-related stuff from my home directory
* Added Option "AllowEmptyInput" "no" to my xorg.conf (cause my mouse and keyboard didn't work)

Now I'm sitting in the pretty Xfce4 envirinment, but I have to deal with one more thing - for some reason X process utilizes 100% of my CPU (and thus complitly wastes one of my CPU kernels)

Code:

$ top

.....

24816 root      19  -1  286m  72m  19m S    100  3.6  5:44.58 X

.....

Although I've launched X from my own user, not root

But I guess it has to do with debug USE flag enabled for xorg-server and related packages.

I will dig into it and post my results

Ah, and that overload somehow also gone by itself.

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