Bug#368422: xserver-xorg: general protection crash after 1:7.0.19 upgrade
reassign 368422 nvidia-glx
thanks
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:43:46PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.0.19
> Severity: normal
>
>
> On two occasions, the x-windows system crashed:
>
> May 19 16:23:50 localhost kernel: Xorg[21060] general protection rip:868e6c rsp:7fffffed7320 error:0
> May 21 19:36:53 localhost kernel: Xorg[3860] general protection rip:8a342a rsp:7fffff9a6810 error:0
>
> At the instant of the crash, the system became unresponsive to keyboard and mouse,
> and the screens blanked. I ssh'd into the system and everything looked normal --
> all x-windows processes had terminated. The system ran fine, but I didn't know how
> to get the keyboard and console back, so I rebooted.
>
> The first crash happened about an hour after these upgrades:
>
> 2006-05-19 15:09 upgrade libglu1-xorg 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:09 upgrade libglu1-xorg-dev 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:09 upgrade x11-common 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:09 install xdm 1:1.0.4-1
> 2006-05-19 15:09 upgrade xlibmesa-dri 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:09 upgrade xlibmesa-gl 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:09 upgrade xlibs-data 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:09 upgrade xlibs-static-dev 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:09 upgrade xserver-xorg 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:10 remove xlibmesa-gl 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:11 remove xlibs-static-dev 1:7.0.19
> 2006-05-19 15:11 remove xlibmesa-dri 1:7.0.19
None of these should affect your drivers. These are all essentially Debian
packaging, except xdm.
> Then two days of normal usage before the second crash, just like the first.
> In the last case, the system crashed when I moved a kompare window from one
> screen to another (dual monitor setup with nvidia twinview). On the other
> hand, I move windows between screens all the time without causing a crash.
>
> I cannot reliably reproduce the crash.
Reassigning to nvidia-glx. This is not the XSF's problem because we can not
support non-free drivers.
- David Nusinow
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