Xorg crashes...

[Tom Cowell]

Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem.

On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root -
it acquires elevated permissions when you run it, and this breaks the
process tracing (and it seems odd to me (though I haven't tried) that
you were able to debug it).

You could try repeating your valgrind test as root, maybe.

Cheers
Tom


2010/1/11 Ryan Daly <daly at ctc.com>:
> On 01/08/2010 04:13 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>> On 01/08/10 13:05, Ryan Daly wrote:
>>> On 01/08/2010 03:56 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>>>> gripes!! valgrind breaks with
>>>> libc 2.11.90(I'll see later on this),
>>>>
>>>> In your case what does valgrind
>>>> output's say when the crash occurs?
>>>
>>> Did you use any options with valgrind or just 'valgrind startx'?
>>>
>>
>> not yet(breaks with libc2.11.90)
>>
>> if I can get this thing fixed then I can see.
>> but from past experiences I think theirs a log file valgrind creates.
>> i.g.
>> valgrind --tool=memcheck(or other) --log-file=(some-file) programname
>>
>> (as soon as I figure/find something I can run valgrind over here to
>> see what it produces)
>>
>> you never know could find something.
>
> Maybe I'm starting this wrong, but I'm getting the following:
>
>
> prompt> valgrind --log-file=/usr2/tmp/valgrind.out --trace-children=yes
> startx
>
> exec: 5: /usr/bin/X11/X: Permission denied
> giving up.
> /usr/bin/xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect
> to X server
> /usr/bin/xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
>
>
> I tried this late last week, but the child process of startx didn't get
> traced, which doesn't seem like it would be of much value.
>
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