Bug#422008: xserver-xorg-core: running 'xvinfo' crashes the server

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Gabor Gombas wrote:
> I wanted to try out Beryl but the X server always crashed. Now I found a
> much simpler trigger: simply running 'xvinfo' reliably crashes the
> server with the same backtrace as Beryl. Attached is the strace output
> of xvinfo in case you may want to figure out what request did cause the
> segfault.
>   

I can't reproduce this here on a Radeon X300. Could you try with a
simple xorg.conf (or even with no xorg.conf at all to use the default
config)? You have lots of options in your current xorg.conf, it would be
good to see if any of them causes the problem.


> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so
> (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> 	compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 6.6.99
> 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>   

Which ATI driver is this? We currently have 6.6.3 in unstable and
6.6.191 in experimental. It would be good to try with these.

This 6.6.99 could be the previous 6.6.3-5 which has been in experimental
about a month ago. It was a daily snapshot, probably less stable than
both 6.6.3 and 6.6.191.

Thanks,
Brice