Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:57:52 +0300
Arthur A <arthur.machlas@gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Briefly, what happens is the 'X' randomly crashes without warning, and it is
> irrecoverable. Any open work is lost. A reboot is required. There is an error in
> the xorg.log about rng expecting one number, getting another, then fatal server
> error.
>
> Here is the bug report I want to file, you comments are appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> AA
> =============================================================================
> To:submit@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: xserver-xorg-video-intel causes X to crash irrecoverably and without
> warning (fatal server error: lockup)
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.3.2-2
> Severity: important
>
> Seemingly at random, and infrequently, X will crash and I will often lose all
> open work. After a number of attempts to automatically restart I will be given a
> message saying that X has crashed and cannot be restarted. Switching to a
> different terminal killing all Xsessions and GDM and attempting to restart them
> does not work. A reboot is seemingly required.
>
> Adding the option "NoDRI" to xorg.conf appears to prevent this from happening?
> This is not a good option for me as suspend/resume does not work with this
> option enabled.
>
> It occurs infrequently, perhaps once every 30 or 40 hours of use, and I have
> been unable to find any pattern. I believe iceweasel has been open for all
> crashes, though this has occured over an upgrade to version 3.0, and has also
> persisted over recent updates to xorg and the intel driver.
>
> The xorg.log seems to contain a relevant and hopefully useful error at the end
> of the log.
>
> I set the severity to important because it currently causes a loss of data.
>
> Please advise if I can provide more information. Reportbug was not working for
> me and I have filed this manually.
>
> Below you will find my xorg.log, xorg.conf, kernel version, libc version. I am
> running Lenny.
>
> Regards,
> AA
>
> # ============================
> # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
> # ============================
...
[This is where the reports related to the bug begin.]
> Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds
> pgetbl_ctl: 0x3ffc0001 getbl_err: 0x00000003
> ipeir: 0x00000000 iphdr: 0x7d000006
> LP ring tail: 0x0000e490 head: 0x0000e49c len: 0x0001f001 start 0x00000000
> eir: 0x0000 esr: 0x0010 emr: 0xffff
> instdone: 0xfa41 instpm: 0x0000
> memmode: 0x0000010f instps: 0x800f04c4
> hwstam: 0xfffe ier: 0x0002 imr: 0x0000 iir: 0x0070
> Ring at virtual 0xa782f000 head 0xe49c tail 0xe490 count 32765
...
> Ring end
> space: 4 wanted 32
> (II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf8d41000 at 0xb7ef3000
> (II) intel(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.
>
> Fatal server error:
> lockup
...
I have reported a version of this to upstream (as per a request by one of the DDs in a similar bug log:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16262
See also:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465694
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432110
Celejar
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