rawhide report: 20080802 changes (X server dies)

[Antonio Olivares]

> >>     One of these or both break X, neither KDE nor
> GNOME wants to come up :(
> >>
> >> I installed this from koji and my x came back up:
> >>
> >>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=58324
> >
> > As for me, i.e. with radeon graphics, for both
> > 2.6.27-0.208.rc1.git2.fc10 from updates and for
> > 2.6.27-0.211.rc1.git3.fc10 from koji X is dead
> although it
> > dies in different spots (slightly further with 211).
> >
> > X does work when I will boot with
> 2.6.27-0.186.rc0.git15.fc10.
> >
> > Bugzilla is down today so this cannot be reported
> there.
> >
> >   Michal
> >
> 0.211 generates a "black screen of death" for me
> with gdm boot
> (runlevel 5).  Checking the logs, there is a repeatable
> kernel Oops in
> the drm code that seems to savage X
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457598, kernel
> BUG at
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c:144! invalid opcode: 0000).
> 
> However, booting 0.211 to runlevel 3 and then issuing a
> 'startx' works
> for me (Thinkpad X60, Intel 945 graphics) without the Oops.
> 

The error you get is the same as in the kernel oops that I got:

http://www.kerneloops.org/submitresult.php?number=47213

0.211 works for me, except that I cannot connect to internet with it.  wvdial bails out with error 1.   This happens with 186,205,208 and 211 2.6.27rc kernels :( 

Regards,

Antonio