Bug#469642: Signal 11 at libGLcore.so(_mesa_update_draw_buffer_bounds+0x59)
tags 469642 +moreinfo
thank you
Sergio Gelato wrote:
> * Brice Goglin [2008-03-10 19:51:06 +0100]:
>
>> The crash is in the Mesa built-in the server, and this mesa 6.5.1 is very old.
>> So please try to reproduce with a more recent Xserver built against a recent Mesa.
>> xserver-xorg-core from testing would be much better already.
>>
>
> Sorry, but the affected computer is in production and not available for
> further testing. I (reluctantly) switched to the proprietary nvidia
> driver as a workaround, and that worked out to the user's satisfaction.
>
Does this mean that you will never be able to do some testing again? Or
do we just have to wait a bit (long)?
I am marking the bug the bug as moreinfo for now.
> As with all problems that have only been observed on one machine, one
> wonders whether it might have been a hardware issue. I forgot to
> mention that this Dell PWS 390 was then running BIOS 2.3.0 and logging
> kernel: mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
> on a regular basis. I have since upgraded to BIOS 2.5.0, which got rid
> of the MTRR warnings.
>
I don't think this could explain such a crash anyway.
Brice
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