[CentOS] Wacom hotplug Xorg crash

Mon Dec 10 12:41:58 UTC 2012
Tris Hoar <trishoar at bgfl.org>

On 07/12/2012 23:09, James Pearson wrote:
> We're seeing a number of Xorg crashes with CentOS 6.2 when using a Wacom tablet shared between two machines (the other machine is running Windows) via a KVM
>
> Xorg crashes after switching the KVM back to the CentOS box
>
> I've tried googling for this issue - and have found:
>
>   https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/148183
>
> Which has a similar backtrace (although not identical) to ones we are seeing (see below) - but no further info is given on that webpage - but appears to indicated that more info might (?) be available if I have a Red Hat Subscription login - which I don't ...
>
> Would it be possible for someone that does have access to let me know if there is any more Red Hat Knowledge Base information about this issue?
>
> A sample backtrace we have seen is:
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4546f8]
> 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x58429) [0x458429]
> 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x3db6a00000+0xf4a0) [0x3db6a0f4a0]
> 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x48e6) [0x7fc69c2ca8e6]
> 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x4ac9) [0x7fc69c2caac9]
> 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x4b2d) [0x7fc69c2cab2d]
> 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x5f077) [0x45f077]
> 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x1158b3) [0x5158b3]
> 8: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x3db6a00000+0xf4a0) [0x3db6a0f4a0]
> 9: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (open64+0x10) [0x3db6a0ed10]
> 10: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x84ec) [0x7fc69c2ce4ec]
> 11: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x61f41) [0x461f41]
> 12: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0xd746) [0x7fc69c2d3746]
> 13: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x885b) [0x7fc69c2ce85b]
> 14: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x61f41) [0x461f41]
> 15: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x142099) [0x542099]
> 16: /usr/lib64/libhal.so.1 (0x3dc2c00000+0xbc08) [0x3dc2c0bc08]
> 17: /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3 (dbus_connection_dispatch+0x336) [0x3db82109d6]
> 18: /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x3db8200000+0x10ca9) [0x3db8210ca9]
> 19: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x13f84b) [0x53f84b]
> 20: /usr/bin/Xorg (WakeupHandler+0x4b) [0x42421b]
> 21: /usr/bin/Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x1ef) [0x452d5f]
> 22: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x2ccf2) [0x42ccf2]
> 23: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x21ebb) [0x421ebb]
> 24: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3db621ecdd]
> 25: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x21a49) [0x421a49]
> Segmentation fault at address (nil)
>
> Thanks
>
> James Pearson
>
>
>

Hi James,

Redhat suggest to update the wdaemon package to version 0.17-2.el6. they 
also reverence this errata http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-1625.html

Tris

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