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Bug#724944: xserver-xorg-video-intel: segfaults when trying to play movies



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Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> (2013-09-29):
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.21.15-1+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: kills entire session; including applications running on it, which likely results in data loss.

No, that isn't data loss.

> I can reliably crash the X server by starting almost any video with almost any
> player.  At least mplayer, xine, totem, and xawtv (showing images from my
> webcam) have managed to crash it.  Log file attached.  If you need debugging
> symbols or anything like that, let me know how to generate it and I'm happy to
> send it.
> 
> The only way I have currently found to play video without crashing X, is using
> mplayer -vo x11.  I think that disables a lot of hardware acceleration, but I'm
> by no means an expert on this topic.

Please provide us with a backtrace. Some hints are available at:
  http://x.debian.net/howto/use-gdb.html

Also, where's the bug script output?

Mraw,
KiBi.

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