F7 Screen saver resets X

[Jim Cornette]

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: F7 Screen saver resets X
> From: Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 06/05/2007 01:10 PM
>> I upgraded to F7 from FC6 and it appeared to run cleanly. I then 
>> updated the system (303 packages) and that went cleanly. Everything 
>> seems to be working, so far with one major exception. When my screen 
>> saver kicks in it resets X. Even in the kcontrol when I select the 
>> screen saver and it starts the preview it crashes X. I have looked in 
>> my Xorg.0.log, messages and dmesg with nothing jumping out at me as a 
>> probable cause.
>>
>> Any clues from anyone?
>>
>> Setup:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux lemix.tmcaz.com 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 
>> 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> $ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
>> kmod-nvidia-1.0.9762-1.2.6.21_1.3194.fc7
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9762-2.lvn7
>>
>> Repositories:
>> kde                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    
>> 00:00
>> livna                     100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    
>> 00:00
>> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
>> 00:00
>> kde-all                   100% |=========================|  951 B    
>> 00:00
>> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    
>> 00:00
>>
>>
> More info...
> 
> Found this in the Xorg.0.log.old file
> 
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80ceb41]
> 1: [0xdcb420]
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> 
> Also it appears to be associated with OGL programs. I tried Celestia and 
> Chess and both perform the same reset.
> 

 From a root terminal you could see if it is effected by SELinux by 
running setenforce 0 followed by launching programs that may cause X to 
sig 11.

Interestingly someone else is getting a similar error with an ATI card 
as shown in the link to the Fedora Forum below:

https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=ASC&topic_id=38272&forum=10&move=prev&topic_time=1180965042

Jim