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Re: Bug#410956: xorg: xserver freezes irregularly when applications use lots of memory



severity 410956 important
reassign 410956 linux-2.6
thanks

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 22:13:11 +0100, Arjen Bax wrote:

> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.1.0-11
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> 
> From time to time, especially when using "big" applications (e.g., Gimp)
> the system just freezes, leaving nothing in the syslog. The only way of
> recovering is by switching off and on the power switch. I finally
> succeeded in capturing some log messages that appeared on the tty of a
> remote logged-in user. It mentions 'kernel BUG' and the process Xorg, so
> I thought it wise to send in a bug report.
> 
> I'll be happy to send in any extra info you'll need, but so far I have
> not succeeded in reliably reproducing the freeze events.
> 
This looks like a kernel bug to me, reassigning.

> <cut>
> Message from syslogd@aglarond at Wed Feb 14 10:04:52 2007 ...
> aglarond kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> aglarond kernel: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:587!
> aglarond kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
> aglarond kernel: SMP
> aglarond kernel: CPU:    0
> aglarond kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x2d
> aglarond kernel: eax: ffffffff   ebx: c10bf640   ecx: c10bf640   edx: c10bf640
> aglarond kernel: esi: b232d000   edi: 00000020   ebp: c5f2dcb4   esp: da7e7f00
> aglarond kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> aglarond kernel: Process Xorg (pid: 3015, ti=da7e6000 task=da601000 task.ti=da7e6000)
> aglarond kernel: Stack: c014b88f b2317000 cbe62da0 da7e7f6c 00000000 00000000 b2400000 d9cecb20
> aglarond kernel:        d9c3fac0 c14040c0 ffffffea ffffffff c10be5ac d9cecb20 003e9000 b26a3000
> aglarond kernel:        00000000 c14040c0 d9c3fac0 d9f56d4c cef662cc c014de97 b26a3000 da7e7f68
> aglarond kernel: Call Trace:
> aglarond kernel: Code: ff ff 85 c0 89 c6 75 c9 b0 01 86 43 28 83 c4 20 89 e8 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 89 c1 90 83 40 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 1e 8b 41 08 40 79 08 <0f> 0b 4b 02 15 aa 29 c0 8b 51 10 89 c8 83 f2 01 83 e2 01 e9 f3
> aglarond kernel: EIP: [<c01506e9>] page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x2d SS:ESP 0068:da7e7f00
> </cut>
> (Each 'aglarond' line was preceded with a similar 'Message from' line, which I removed except the very first.)
> 
> lspci reports as graphics card:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 04)
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> 
> Versions of packages xorg depends on:
> ii  gnome-terminal [x-term 2.14.2-1          The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
> ii  konsole [x-terminal-em 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 X terminal emulator for KDE
> ii  libgl1-mesa-dri        6.5.1-0.5         A free implementation of the OpenG
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx        6.5.1-0.5         A free implementation of the OpenG
> ii  libglu1-mesa           6.5.1-0.5         The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
> ii  rxvt [x-terminal-emula 1:2.6.4-10        VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
> ii  type-handling [not+spa 0.2.19            dpkg architecture generation scrip
> ii  xbase-clients          1:7.1.ds1-2       miscellaneous X clients
> ii  xfonts-100dpi          1:1.0.0-3         100 dpi fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-75dpi           1:1.0.0-3         75 dpi fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-base            1:1.0.0-4         standard fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-scalable        1:1.0.0-6         scalable fonts for X
> ii  xkb-data               0.9-4             X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
> ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.1.0-11        the X.Org X server
> ii  xterm [x-terminal-emul 222-1etch2        X terminal emulator
> ii  xutils                 1:7.1.ds.3-1      X Window System utility programs
> 
> xorg recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information

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