Bug#410386: Xorg segfaults randomly
Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.1.0-11
Hello,
In the past two weeks, Xorg seems to crash randomly on my Debian Etch
machine. It can work for an hour and up to 4 or 5 hours, and then
suddenly it crashes. It also seems to happen, when the screen changes.
When I am not working on this computer, it will not crash.
I asked this in mailing lists, forums and the debian IRC channel, and
finally was told all I can do is file this bug.
The hardware is, a Pentium 4 with a GeForce 6800 GS AGP video card.
I'm using this setup, for 4 months, without problems(*), it only
appeared recently, and I believe it was after upgrading some X related
packages (don't recall which).
This problem occurs with both the free nv driver and the proprietary
nvidia driver. I tried different kernels, tried downgrading to
previous version of Xorg (using snapshot.debian.net), but nothing
worked. It also should be noted, that running a live CD of Ubuntu
Dapper for a whole day, did not result in a crash.
(*) When I first upgraded to Xorg 7.1 from 7.0, I had the exact same
problem, because I didn't upgrade all packages to 7.1. Now however, it
does not seem to be this way, all packages are upgraded. The thread I
opened can be viewed in the following URL:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78275
I get a back trace in the xorg logs:
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c4354]
1: [0xb7f83420]
2: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x81) [0x8086b91]
3: /usr/bin/X(main+0x489) [0x806e699]
4: /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7d73ea8]
5: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa9) [0x806d9d1]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
Other Info:
$ uname -r
2.6.18-3-686
$ ls -l /lib/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-02-09 13:46 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.6.so
$ dpkg -s xorg|grep ^Version
Version: 1:7.1.0-11
If more info is needed, please mention that (Can I attach files here?
or do I have to copy their contents to the message body?).
Shlomi
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