Public bug reported: After upgrading Xubuntu 12.04 LTS -> 14.04.1 LTS, system boots to black screen instead of desktop environment, but single user command line works fine. Problem traced to xorg-server segfault crash in the Trident driver as below (summary of details already uploaded). The code attempts a call to an offset against eax which is a null pointer.
After changing the acceleration architecture from XAA to EXA with Option "AccelMethod" "exa" in the Trident Device section of xorg.conf, the desktop environment loaded successfully. Maybe this option should now be the default for Trident? ProblemType: Crash Architecture: i386 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Tue Sep 9 13:26:36 2014 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg ExecutableTimestamp: 1406679727 ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nol isten tcp vt7 -novtswitch ProcCwd: /etc/X11 ProcEnviron: Disassembly: => 0xb6cb39d1: call *0x6c(%eax) 0xb6cb39d4: jmp 0xb6cb3979 0xb6cb39d6: lea 0x0(%esi),%esi 0xb6cb39d9: lea 0x0(%edi,%eiz,1),%edi 0xb6cb39e0: push %ebp 0xb6cb39e1: mov %eax,%ebp 0xb6cb39e3: push %edi 0xb6cb39e4: xor %edi,%edi 0xb6cb39e6: push %esi 0xb6cb39e7: mov $0x20000,%esi 0xb6cb39ec: push %ebx 0xb6cb39ed: sub $0x1c,%esp 0xb6cb39f0: mov 0x18(%eax),%eax 0xb6cb39f3: call 0xb6caa4f0 0xb6cb39f8: add $0x14608,%ebx 0xb6cb39fe: sub $0x17,%eax Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6 Registers: eax 0x0 0 ecx 0x0 0 edx 0xb96d7cb0 -1184006992 ebx 0xb6cc8000 -1228111872 esp 0xbf887300 0xbf887300 ebp 0xb96d5688 0xb96d5688 esi 0xb96d3f98 -1184022632 edi 0xb96d43f8 -1184021512 eip 0xb6cb39d1 0xb6cb39d1 eflags 0x213202 [ IF #12 #13 RF ID ] cs 0x73 115 ss 0x7b 123 ds 0x7b 123 es 0x7b 123 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x33 51 SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0xb6cb39d1: call *0x6c(%eax) PC (0xb6cb39d1) ok source "*0x6c(%eax)" ok destination "(%esp)" (0xbf887300) ok SP (0xbf887300) ok Reason could not be automatically determined. SourcePackage: xorg-server ... Title: Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in xf86VTSwitch() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-07 (2 days ago) _MarkForUpload: True ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Tue Sep 9 18:09:01 2014 SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-07 (2 days ago) ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1367386 Title: Xorg crash with Trident driver after Xubuntu upgrade to Trusty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1367386/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp