X.Org 7-4 -> X.Org 7.5 upgrade -- issues and questions

**DutchDaemon** · #1 April 30th, 2010, 19:48

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...il/060906.html

Quote:

Xorg 7.5 merge coming tomorrow

First of all I apologize for the long waiting time for Xorg 7.5
Now the facts. Xorg 7.5 is completely finished last issues
were fixed by fluffy@, and the exp-run was also fine, I expect
the merge of xorg 7.5 tomorrow evening UTC. I think the KDE
team and the GNOME team will their ports after the Xorg update.
So i think you should monitor the CVS commits, ports and x11
mailing list to make sure you don't report a duplicat problems
(if we get some).

- - Martin

Please use only this thread to report issues with or to ask questions about upgrading X.Org 7.4 to X.Org 7.5.

**DutchDaemon** · #2 May 1st, 2010, 18:57

It's nice and quiet in here

Which coincides with my observation: the X.Org upgrade was swift and painless, and everything is in working order.

fronclynne · #3 May 1st, 2010, 19:03

Nah, just quietly weeping with fear over here in the corner, afraid to do anything but df(1) and run shell builtin(1)s.

**DutchDaemon** · #4 May 1st, 2010, 19:36

Ok, so it was too good to be true.

First glitch encountered: Pidgin segfaults and crashes the entire X environment. No clues in either /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/messages. Currently running a portmaster -Rf pidgin\*.

ckester · #5 May 1st, 2010, 21:01

FWIW, I just finished updating all my installed ports, including Xorg, and encountered no problems.

This is on an 8-0-STABLE/i386 system with an Intel Atom processor and using the Vesa video driver. I used 'portmaster -a -d' to perform the update.

I haven't yet exercised all of my usual applications, so something might still turn up. But right now it looks good.

Added 2 May: My success report was premature. Today portmaster tells me xorg still needs to be updated. I thought it had already been updated by yesterday's run, but it seems I was mistaken.

Erratus · #6 May 1st, 2010, 21:15

While compiling libXi got a stop due to parser error, cause docbook-xml-4.5 was not installed. Installing docbook-xml-4.5 solved the problem.

**DutchDaemon** · #7 May 1st, 2010, 23:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by DutchDaemon

First glitch encountered: Pidgin segfaults and crashes the entire X environment. No clues in either /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/messages. Currently running a portmaster -Rf pidgin\*.

Well, that didn't help. Pidign still segfaults and takes the X environment down with it. The console prints:

Code:

Pidgin: Fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server :0.0.

No idea what that's about right now.

**DutchDaemon** · #8 May 1st, 2010, 23:24

Interestingly, Pidgin will start and run when issuing:

$ truss /usr/local/bin/pidgin > ~/bla 2>&1

or when issuing:

$ /usr/local/bin/pidgin > /dev/null 2>&1

oliverh · #9 May 2nd, 2010, 00:10

Works fine here.

-xf86-video-ati
-openbox
-64 bit
-8-stable

According to miwi the following should avoid such problems.

Quote:

For updating try

portupgrade -af \*

**DutchDaemon** · #10 May 2nd, 2010, 00:48

A recursive Pidgin reinstall should've fixed it already.

adamk · #11 May 2nd, 2010, 01:25

If Xorg is crashing, clearly the problem is with the driver or X server, even if pidgin is the trigger. Maybe an update of the ports tree followed by rebuilding Xorg is in order.

Adam

aragon · #12 May 2nd, 2010, 01:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by DutchDaemon

Interestingly, Pidgin will start and run when issuing:

Also interestingly, the error message you posted doesn't seem to exist in pidgin source...

(unless I'm blind)

jrm · #13 May 2nd, 2010, 02:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by DutchDaemon

It's nice and quiet in here

As a heads up, here is a copy of what I posted to the x11 list:

Hi,

When starting Xorg

Code:

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so: Undefined symbol
"xf86LoaderReqSymLists"

appears. I tried a newly generated config file, but there was no
change. The is on a box running 8.0-RELEASE-p2. If there is any
other information I can provide, please let me know.

Cheers,

Joey Mingrone

fronclynne · #14 May 2nd, 2010, 03:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by aragon

Also interestingly, the error message you posted doesn't seem to exist in pidgin source...

(unless I'm blind)

Indeed. It looks like X is trying to access some resource that no longer exists. I guess I could (re)install pidgin here and see if it causes mucho freude here.

Edit: pidgin doesn't give problems here. My /var/db/ports/pidgin/options

Code:

# This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
# No user-servicable parts inside!
# Options for pidgin-2.6.6_1
_OPTIONS_READ=pidgin-2.6.6_1
WITHOUT_BONJOUR=true
WITHOUT_DBUS=true
WITH_GNUTLS=true
WITHOUT_NSS=true
WITHOUT_SASL=true
WITHOUT_GSTREAMER=true
WITHOUT_VV=true
WITH_IDN=true
WITH_PERL=true
WITHOUT_TCLTK=true
WITHOUT_SAMETIME=true
WITHOUT_SILC=true
WITH_GG=true
WITH_IRC=true
WITH_JABBER=true
WITH_MSN=true
WITH_MYSPACE=true
WITH_NOVELL=true
WITH_OSCAR=true
WITH_QQ=true
WITH_SIMPLE=true
WITH_YAHOO=true
WITH_ZEPHYR=true
WITHOUT_GTKSPELL=true
WITH_CAP=true

p5ycho · #15 May 2nd, 2010, 12:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by mingrone

As a heads up, here is a copy of what I posted to the x11 list:

Hi,

When starting Xorg

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so: Undefined symbol
"xf86LoaderReqSymLists"

appears. I tried a newly generated config file, but there was no
change. The is on a box running 8.0-RELEASE-p2. If there is any
other information I can provide, please let me know.

Cheers,

Joey Mingrone

Just finished compiling. My intel-video-based Thinkpad X60t runs fine.

Two problems though.
My keyboard repeat rate is default again. It seems my HAL policies are picked up, but not acted on.

Code:

43203-38: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbd_0'
43252-  freebsd.driver = 'atkbd'  (string)
43289-  freebsd.unit = 0  (0x0)  (int)
43322-  platform.id = 'atkbd.0'  (string)
43358-  freebsd.device_file = '/dev/atkbd0'  (string)
43406:  info.capabilities = { 'input', 'input.keyboard' } (string list)
43472:  info.category = 'input.keyboard'  (string)
43517-  input.device = ''  (string)
43547-  input.x11_driver = 'kbd'  (string)
43584-  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbd_0'  (string)
43646-  info.subsystem = 'platform'  (string)
43686-  info.product = 'AT Keyboard'  (string)
43727-  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0'  (string)
43793-  input.x11_options.AutoRepeat = '200 60'  (string)

Mice work great though, configured in the same .fdi policy.

Looks like this post on the Debian forums.

Also, the input-wacom driver does not compile.

Any thoughts? slow keyboard repeat rates suck.

jrm · #16 May 2nd, 2010, 13:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by p5ycho

Just finished compiling. My intel-video-based Thinkpad X60t runs fine.

Hmm.. I'm at a loss then. I did a

$ portmaster -f xorg

and everything compiled fine but same error.

Brandybuck · #17 May 2nd, 2010, 17:38

FBSD-8.0, Radeon X1650, radeon driver.

Updated Xorg yesterday, everything seems to work, except KMyMoney. This is my only KDE3 program. When opening a save dialog, or otherwise switching top level windows, the mouse will suddenly start moving very jerky, and everything else is unresponsive. Unable to ctrl-alt switch out to console, cannot close windows, nothing. Harddrive light is not active. Am forced to poweroff.

I have not rebuilt KDE3/KMyMoney yet. Will try that.

#18 May 2nd, 2010, 22:39

FreeBSD 8.0, KDE 4.3.5, ati radeon gr. card

Kuickshow-kde4 stop working. There are no error just a grey picture. I rebuilt kuickshow but didn't help.

The other problem is scroling in Konqueror and Firefox. It is not smooth as before. Maybe is a problem a mouse driver?

**DutchDaemon** · #19 May 3rd, 2010, 00:45

I reinstalled Pidgin in numerous configurations (including the binary package), but it keeps bombing X on amd64/8 stable. Same error.

adamk · #20 May 3rd, 2010, 01:46

Seriously, Pidgin is not the problem, just the trigger. The problem is with Xorg. If you are using the latest version, rebuilt everything, and it's still crashing, try and get a backtrace with gdb.

Adam

aragon · #21 May 3rd, 2010, 10:05

Is Xorg generating a core dump when this happens?

**DutchDaemon** · #22 May 3rd, 2010, 11:15

I know Pidgin is not the problem, because it's X crashing and giving the error about Pidgin, I'm just playing with build variations of Pidgin to see if one of them works. It looks like some file descriptor snafu. There are no dumps, and truss is not really informative. Since none of my other apps are misbehaving in any way, it must be something specific about the interaction between Pidgin and X.Org 7.5.

Brandybuck · #23 May 3rd, 2010, 18:37

What's the best/easiest way to downgrade to Xorg 7.4? Thanks in advance.

maplecookies · #24 May 4th, 2010, 01:27

Just came here to say the upgrade was smooth as silk using portmaster over ssh. It upgraded something like 160+ ports. Only hiccup was trouble running pkg_delete on xorg_server7.4 I typed "i" for ignore and it continued until completion.

Also, no trouble at all with pidgin. DutchDaemon, if there's any information from my system I can provide that would be of help to you, do let me know.

**DutchDaemon** · #25 May 4th, 2010, 12:34

@maplecookies, are you on 8-STABLE/amd64? That's my environment. It's not a biggie; I can live without Pidgin.

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