Yet another problem with this new version of xorg-x11. On my wife's x86 box mythfrontend starts up fine but as soon as I try and watch Live TV or a recorded video X completely crashes and I'm back to gdm logging me in. This does not happen on my AMD64 machine and according to my wife didn't happen on this machine last night!
Looking in Xorg.0.log.old after logging back in I see these messages starting with the error message which isn't there just before the crash: (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "SAM", prod id 439 (EE) intel(0): Failed to pin xv buffer Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0x812735f] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting (II) Logitech USB Receiver: Close (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" (II) Logitech USB Receiver: Close (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch What an 'xv buffer'? Flag issue with xorg-server or Myth itself? dragonfly log # emerge -pv xorg-server These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 USE="hal ipv6 nptl sdl xorg -3dfx -debug -dmx -kdrive -minimal -tslib" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev -acecad -aiptek -calcomp -citron -digitaledge -dmc -dynapro -elo2300 -elographics -fpit -hyperpen -jamstudio -joystick -keyboard -magellan -microtouch -mouse -mutouch -palmax -penmount -spaceorb -summa -synaptics -tek4957 -tslib -ur98 -virtualbox -vmmouse -void -wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev intel vesa -apm -ark -ast -chips -cirrus -dummy -epson -fglrx -geode -glint -i128 -i740 (-impact) -imstt -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nv -nvidia -r128 -radeon -radeonhd -rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l -vermilion -via -virtualbox -vmware -voodoo -xgi" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly log # dragonfly log # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1 USE="alsa dvb dvd mmx perl python xvmc -aac (-altivec) -autostart -debug -directv -fftw -ieee1394 -jack -lcd -lirc -opengl" VIDEO_CARDS="-nvidia" 26,664 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 26,664 kB dragonfly log # Any ideas? Thanks, Mark dragonfly log # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r10-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:45:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage_temp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 acl alsa apache2 apm audiofile berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal i8x0 iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql mythtv ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcltk tcpd threads tiff transcode truetype unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 usb" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS dragonfly log # dragonfly log # rc-update show alsasound | default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot coldplug | boot consolefont | boot cupsd | default dbus | default hald | default hostname | boot hotplug | default keymaps | boot local | default nonetwork localmount | boot modules | boot net.eth0 | default net.lo | boot netmount | default ntp-client | default ntpd | default portmap | default rmnologin | boot sshd | default syslog-ng | default urandom | boot vixie-cron | default xdm | default dragonfly log # dragonfly log # lsmod Module Size Used by snd_pcm_oss 32160 0 snd_mixer_oss 12288 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss 24732 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5632 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 40232 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_usb_audio 70368 0 snd_usb_lib 12928 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi 16928 1 snd_usb_lib snd_seq_device 5900 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd_hwdep 6276 1 snd_usb_audio i915 25856 2 drm 61736 3 i915 sbp2 18572 0 ieee1394 66064 1 sbp2 snd_intel8x0 25756 1 snd_ac97_codec 87072 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 1664 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 56452 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 16520 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 40632 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer intel_agp 22588 1 snd_page_alloc 6792 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm agpgart 25524 3 drm,intel_agp dragonfly log #