Bug#389088: Segfault when taking a screenshot after disk partitioning

[Christoph Haas <haas@debian.org>]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 09:48, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Christoph Haas wrote:
> > Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb
> >
> > I just tried todays Etch beta netinstall install CD with the graphical
> > install (installgui). When the partitioning step is done and the
> > computer starts to actually do something in the background (probably
> > writing the partition table or mkfs) it seems to be unwise to click on
> > the "Screenshot" button. I got thrown to the text console and saw a
> > segfault. Then the partitioning manager was started again and at least
> > I could start from scratch.
>
> Cristoph, could you please give us an overview of the HW configuration
> (HW architecture, graphic board) that caused the segfault?

Sure.

CPU: i386 (Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz)
Mainboard: ASUS (I can research the exact model number if needed)
Memory: 512 MB RAM

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM 
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE 
Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 
EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC 
Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 
02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 
5600XT] (rev a1)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]

Details about graphics card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 
5600XT] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc. Unknown device 2959
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 217
        Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fe9e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0

 Christoph