[Xastir] X segfaults when starting Xastir (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Jeremy Utley]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Kevin Ratcliff
<kevin at kevinratcliff.com> wrote:
> I just installed Xastir on an freshly installed Ubuntu 10.04 PC, using
> the instructions on the wiki. I've done this several times before on
> different computers, but on this one launching xastir causes X to
> segfault. This is what I see in Xorg.0.log:
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80e937b]
> 1: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x61c7d) [0x80a9c7d]
> 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xa5d410]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so (0x268000+0x4782) [0x26c782]
> ......
>
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
>
> The only thing I did to the PC was install Ubuntu, update packages,
> and install Xastir from CVS using the 10.04 wiki instructions.
>
> I'm going to see if I can replicate the issue in a VM. Any suggestions
> for troubleshooting?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kevin
> KB9MQU
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I trimmed the above a little, but you won't replicate it in a VM.
This particular segfault was triggered in the nouveau video card
driver - nouveau is the reverse-engineered open-source Nvidia driver.
Does Ubuntu give you the ability to use the Nvidia driver instead?
You might try that and see what happens.

Jeremy, KE0MD