[Explained] X crash at boot - prop. nvidia involved, but very odd

I've been having issues with the proprietary nvidia driver for some time now, but got it to work today and in turn figured out what the problem was, kind of.
So I installed the necesary stuff and made damn sure to disable auto start of Slim, to avoid any significant issues and it worked. I could start X via startx or 'systemctl start slim'', it made no difference, so obviously I thought it safe to enable autostart of slim.
That was a bit mistake. Next when I rebooted I had the same issue once again. Back screen and the fan going haywire.
So I decided to go with another manager and since I just installed LXDE, of course LXDM was appropiate and the issue was exactly the same.
in short:
startx [works]
systemctl start slim/lxdm [works]
systemctl enable slim/lxdm; reboot [crash boom bang]
The odd thing though, and I only tried this with slim, is that if .xinitrx is empty, slim has no issue starting.
Also, I had no such issues using the nouveau driver, so it would seem that the proprietary nvidia driver is to blame, somehow.
safe to say I'm very very confused.
I've looked at a few logs, but have found nothing that, to me at least, looked relevant.
So if you have any ideas, any at all, please do let me know. It's a fairly insignificant problem, all things considered, but I'd really like it fixed.
Best regards.
Last edited by zacariaz (2013-10-02 17:29:28)

Foxboron wrote:
zacariaz wrote:
Foxboron wrote:
Helluw.
This a current kernel issue with 3.11 and 3.10.
You got two options.
1) Downgrade to 3.9
2) On my Zenbook i could enable "Fast CMS" which solved the problem.
I suspected that 3.11 for workgroups had something to do with it.
Anyway, while I'm grateful for your answer, I haven't the slightest idea what "fast cms" is in this content and obviously Google is not helpful help as CMS usually refer to content management system.
So if you could please give me a hint, it will be very much appreciated.
Best regards.
Sorry. In the BIOS on my Asus Zenbook there is something called "Fast CMS" in the boot section which is by default disabled. I have tried googling, but i got no idea what it does or what it is. I just read a thread where someone said it was solved by enabling it.
Well, I've got nothing like that sadly. Guess I'll have to wait for the kernel and nvidia folks to sort this out.
Thanks again.

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Gdm:
Gdm crashes on boot because xorg segfaults (multiple times mind you). This only happens when I have the catalyst drivers installed, works fine with xf86 version. I *can* manually start gnome-session either with that command, or by using startx. As far as I can tell everything works once i do it like this, however TTY1 remains stuck on the boot screen.
I am using the custom x114 repo that was provided on the catalyst wiki page and have the 114.5 xorg version installed form it. I also have the latest catalyst version installed from it's repos (NOT from AUR).
Touchpad:
My touchpad does not work at all, I have tried both the normal xf86-input-synaptics package and the one included in the custom x114 repo. It did work when I was using the opensource drivers and the normal version of xorg, though.
Anyone have any ideas?
Relevant xorg portion from my journal:
May 31 13:57:49 archtop kernel: fglrx_pci 0000:00:01.0: irq 52 for MSI/MSI-X
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE)
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: for help.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: at http://wiki.x.org
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE)
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE)
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Fatal server error:
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE)
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE)
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 10: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x24f0f) [0x424f0f]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 9: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf0) [0x7fe137250000]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 8: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x249db) [0x4249db]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (InitOutput+0x7bf) [0x47620f]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86LoadModules+0xba) [0x4759da]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x660fc) [0x4660fc]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7fe1342a8000+0x44aacf) [0x7fe1346f2acf]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7fe1342a8000+0x44af34) [0x7fe1346f2f34]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fe1383f8000+0xf4b0) [0x7fe1384074b0]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x181da9) [0x581da9]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3d) [0x57e04d]
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE) Backtrace:
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (EE)
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Module class: X.Org Video Driver
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 14.20.7
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies Inc."
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Loading extension GLX
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 1.0.0
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) Module glx: vendor="Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) LoadModule: "glx"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension DRI2
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XVideo
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension DPMS
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension RECORD
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension RANDR
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension RENDER
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension SYNC
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XTEST
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (--) PCI:*(0:0:1:0) 1002:9903:1043:105b rev 0, Mem @ 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xffb00000/262144, I/O @ 0x0000f0
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: X.Org Server Extension : 7.0
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: X.Org XInput driver : 19.1
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: X.Org Video Driver: 14.1
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) Module ABI versions:
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) Loader magic: 0x7fac20
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: /usr/share/fonts/Type1/
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: /usr/share/fonts/misc/,
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) FontPath set to:
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/").
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Entry deleted from font path.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/").
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Entry deleted from font path.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Entry deleted from font path.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Automatically enabling devices
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Automatically adding devices
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (**) | |-->Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (**) | |-->Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (**) |-->Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" (0)
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) ServerLayout "aticonfig Layout"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (++) Log file: "/dev/null", Time: Sat May 31 13:57:27 2014
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: to make sure that you have the latest version.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Current version of pixman: 0.32.4
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Build Date: 08 January 2014 01:35:51PM
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=cb7dc213-6f5a-4b1d-8068-919a37cf7ff1 rw quiet
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Current Operating System: Linux archtop 3.14.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 13 16:41:39 CEST 2014 x86_64
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Build Operating System: Linux 3.12.6-1-ARCH x86_64
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Release Date: 2013-12-12
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: X.Org X Server 1.14.5
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:4[275]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Entry deleted from font path.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Automatically enabling devices
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Automatically adding devices
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (**) | |-->Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (**) | |-->Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (**) |-->Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" (0)
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) ServerLayout "aticonfig Layout"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (++) Log file: "/dev/null", Time: Sat May 31 13:57:27 2014
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: to make sure that you have the latest version.
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Current version of pixman: 0.32.4
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Build Date: 08 January 2014 01:35:51PM
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=cb7dc213-6f5a-4b1d-8068-919a37cf7ff1 rw quiet
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Current Operating System: Linux archtop 3.14.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 13 16:41:39 CEST 2014 x86_64
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Build Operating System: Linux 3.12.6-1-ARCH x86_64
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: Release Date: 2013-12-12
May 31 13:57:45 archtop gdm-Xorg-:5[277]: X.Org X Server 1.14.5
As you can see it's trying to log to /dev/null for whatever reason, no idea how to fix that.
If you need more info please ask.
Last edited by sabreman (2014-05-31 21:16:52)

Please ignore this thread. I have gotten sick of this issue (have been dealing with it over a week now) and have decided to drop arch in favor of Debian. Don't worry, I still love it, but I will never try to put it on this laptop again.

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