F7 Screen saver resets X

Paul Lemmons paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com
Tue Jun 5 20:35:32 UTC 2007


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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.
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