After update Xorg server crashes

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Simion Onea <simionea at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
<snip>
> I have rebooted my system and after that I cannot log-in to my system
> using the graphical interface. After I hit my username and enter the
> password the screen turns black for a brief and then the login screen
> appears again.
> I switched to a text terminal and checked the "/var/log/messages".
> Here are the related lines:
> Sep 18 08:20:47 TestField pam: gdm-password[2308]:
> pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user simion.onea by
> (uid=0)
> Sep 18 08:20:48 TestField pulseaudio[2784]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
> Sep 18 08:20:48 TestField kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type
> fuse), uses genfs_contexts
> Sep 18 08:20:48 TestField pulseaudio[2852]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
> Sep 18 08:20:49 TestField kernel: Xorg[2234]: segfault at 0 ip
> 00000000004e8e0b sp 00007fff6d026658 error 4 in Xorg[400000+1b6000]
> Sep 18 08:20:49 TestField pam: gdm-password[2308]:
> pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session closed for user simion.onea
> Sep 18 08:20:49 TestField gnome-keyring-daemon[2617]: dbus failure
> unregistering from session: Connection is closed
> Sep 18 08:20:49 TestField kernel: [drm] DAC-6: set mode 1280x1024 16
>
> As you can see Xorg segfaults.
>
> Has enybody encountered such an error?
> What can be done in this case?

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518748, especially the
later comments.  There is an update that you can download directly
from koji.

Jonathan