Xorg crashes...

[Justin P. Mattock]

On 01/11/10 06:04, Ryan Daly wrote:
> On 01/11/2010 09:02 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>> On 01/11/10 05:53, Ryan Daly wrote:
>>> On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I did try the strace as root, but I received errors there, too:
>>>
>>>
>>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>>>
>>> X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
>>> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
>>> giving up.
>>> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X
>>> server
>>> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
>>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>>>
>>>
>>
>> my bad didn't even think about setuid(thought valgrind
>> would work without the whole root thing).
>> I guess abort that idea.
>
> No problem...  Let me know if you come up with anything else I can try...
> --

cool, at the moment away from myoffice(remotely), if anything
comes to mind I'll think outloud with a post..

Justin P. Mattock