https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631994 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631994#c3 --- Comment #3 from Harald Koenig <koenig@linux.de> 2010-12-09 16:27:35 UTC --- I just tried again: the following command line still crashes: $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/Xvnc xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.5_1.8.0-10.3.1.x86_64 $ xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session -- /usr/bin/Xvnc :3 [ ... ] Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/Xvnc (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x555408] 1: /usr/bin/Xvnc (0x400000+0x158ba9) [0x558ba9] 2: /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7facc29a0000+0x32a60) [0x7facc29d2a60] 3: /lib64/libc.so.6 (strlen+0x12) [0x7facc2a1c6a2] 4: /usr/bin/Xvnc (0x400000+0x11effd) [0x51effd] 5: /usr/bin/Xvnc (0x400000+0x11f700) [0x51f700] 6: /usr/bin/Xvnc (0x400000+0x6c74c) [0x46c74c] 7: /usr/bin/Xvnc (0x400000+0x5baca) [0x45baca] 8: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7facc29beb7d] 9: /usr/bin/Xvnc (0x400000+0x1ad29) [0x41ad29] Segmentation fault at address (nil) Fatal server error: Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting running ltrace on Xvnc might give a small hint about the last steps of Xvnc before crashing: read(22, "\2040\002", 4096) = 8 malloc(24) = 0x00d80610 memset(0x00d80610, '\000', 24) = 0x00d80610 strlen("Virtual core pointer") = 20 strlen("Virtual core keyboard") = 21 strlen("Virtual core XTEST pointer") = 26 strlen("Virtual core XTEST keyboard") = 27 strlen(NULL <unfinished ...> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- maybe you can compare that with your own ltrace output of working Xvnc startup and see what's the next step after that strlen("Virtual core XTEST keyboard") since those strlen strings are xinput devices, here some more information about my system to compare with yours -- is "Power Button" your next string in strlen() ? ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ HID 04d9:1400 id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ⎜ ↳ HID 04d9:1400 id=9 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Logitech Optical USB Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)] -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.