Description of problem: Normally I use GNOME with GDM and gnome-screensaver, but since various upgrades of both in combination with (otherwise well-working) systemd I decided to use xfce4 and kdm for now. I use dkms-fglrx-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree and x11-driver-video-fglrx-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree to drive my AMD Radeon HD 6570 The evening before last, after upgrading my Cauldron box, I thought GDM was working okay and I also returned to gnome-screensaver, but stayed with xfce4 as I couldn't get proper appearance in GNOME yet. My box kept running that night and all yesterday but returning yesterday evening to it, I found that GDM had become stuck at 03:09 hours a.m. - as shown on screen - and I could not log in. The running session was still xfce4 and it had continued running all the time, according to the logs. Also I was unable to change to any tty (which I could all days before with kdm and xscreensaver). So after a reset I found a kernel oops 'happened' at 03:09 a.m. last night, as attached. Processor is an Intel i7 950.
Created attachment 857 [details] kernel oops from logs
Created attachment 858 [details] cat of /proc/cpuinfo
Created attachment 859 [details] content of /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
Created attachment 860 [details] cat of /proc/iomen plus /proc/ioports
Created attachment 861 [details] result of 'lsmod'
Created attachment 862 [details] result of 'lspci -vvv' as root
Created attachment 863 [details] result of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Hmmm, I'm not sure there is much we can do here as it's the fglrx driver that crashes: Sep 28 03:09:16 dvg kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 Sep 28 03:09:16 dvg kernel: IP: [<ffffffffa0490251>] _ZN20CMMHeap_SystemMemory8pushPoolEP7CMMPool+0x11/0x40 [fglrx] Has it happend more than once ?
No because right after I stopped using gdm. Curious is that I was using fglrx for months w/o any probs. I can understand what you say, but should I report it anywhere else (upstream for gdm or fglrx ?) Thanks.
I see catalyst (which is in fglrx-control-center-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree) is version 11.8, while AMD now has 11.9 since 28th September 2011 ! Please be so kind to package the new version from: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.42&lang=English (I wouldn't ask for a package upgrade in Cauldron, except now that I had this kernel oops). Thanks beforehand.
Assignee: tmb => bugsquadSource RPM: kernel-server-3.0.4-1.mga2-1-1.mga2 => fglrx-control-center-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree
Summary: kernel oops with latest GDM and fglrx => kernel oops with latest GDM and fglrx -> request to upgrade fglrx-control-center (catalyst 11.9)
Assignee: bugsquad => anssi.hannula
Installed and working, Thanks
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED