Bug#431655: xorg restarts when playing video
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 02:32 -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.2-5
> Severity: important
>
> When playing back video using totem (either totem-xine or totem-gstreamer
> from debian-multimedia.org), xorg will unpredictably restart. The crashes
> seem to be most frequent when totem is playing a playlist (not a single
> file), and to happen during the transition from one file to another, or
> whenever I task-switch either away from or to the totem window using the
> keyboard (alt-tab).
>
> I tried VLC as an alternative. Playing video back with VLC, xorg will also
> sometimes crash on transitions as above, and crashes 100% of the time if I
> change the hotkeys in the VLC preferences and click "Save".
>
> In order to test for hardware problems, I booted my tower using a Knoppix
> CD. Knoppix doesn't include totem or VLC, so I played several videos with
> Kaffeine. There were no problems whatsoever.
>
> I then booted back into Debian Lenny, installed Kaffeine, and tried to play
> the same video files. Before the Kaffeine window even opened, xorg crashed
> again.
>
> Andrew Sackville-West reports that he can reliably crash X by dragging an
> active mplayer window from one monitor to another. Andrew's and my
> discussion on debian-user can be read starting here:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00043.html
>
> That thread includes Backtrace reports from the xorg crashes.
>
> Relevant versions on my PC:
>
> totem-xine: 2.16.5-3
> vlc: 0.8.6.a.debian-6
> kaffeine: 0.8.3-1
Actually, mostly the version of xserver-xorg-core would be relevant.
Assuming it's 1.3,
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commitdiff;h=649e7f82d8d4333443493056b81eb20d6cf022bc;hp=047bf3349bb697c73c95729a8bbf15f72605901f
should fix it.
XSF, can we backport this fix? I nominated it for the upstream 1.3
branch, but the 1.3 release manager doesn't seem to care anymore.
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