On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:16 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > Sam Morris wrote: > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > > Version: 2:2.3.1-1 > > Severity: important > > > > On an amd64 system, the server crashes when I run google earth. > > > > The screen freezes, and then the screen goes black for a second. When it > > comes back, some colours on the screen are different (like someone > > picked a random colour in a painting program and then clicked on a few > > random places using the Fill tool). > > > > It is possible to switch to tty1 and hit ctrl+alt+del to reboot, or even > > log in blind and run some programs, all while the screen remains frozen. > > > > If X is actually crashing, there should be a backtrace at the end of > /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or log.old if X already restarted since then). There isn't, so it look like it's not actaully crashing, just getting stuck somewhere... > It would be even better if you catch a backtrace with gdb after > installing xserver-xorg-core-dbg and libgl1-mesa-dri-dbg. Since your > machine seems to be alive after the problem, logging through ssh and > attaching gdb should be easy. I'll try this next time I can reproduce the problem. Having failed every single time I tried to run google earth so far, now I can't get it to freeze at all! Computers, eh? :) > > > > (WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x00000001 > > (WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled > > (WW) intel(0): PRB0_HEAD (0x468145b8) and PRB0_TAIL (0x00014710) indicate ring buffer not flushed > > (WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state. > > > > Beware of this. Assuming this is th X log after a soft reboot after the > crash, it may mean that the hardware didn't get properly cleaned, > causing some possible problems later. A hard reboot after the crash may > help. This is actually the log of the crashed X, as obtained by rebooting and examining /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old. > > Brice > -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
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