Bug#497116: xorg: random crashes on shutdown
severity 497116 important
thank you
Sten Heinze wrote:
> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+15
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes data loss
>
No.
> xorg crashes randomly on shutdown, i.e. after the desktop environment
> shut down (closing programs and playing shutdown sound). The screen does
> not return to the normal console (tty1) but stays black instead and
> freezes the system (only switching off helps). This happened for me both
> with KDE 3 and 4 (each using the latest versions available in Debian).
>
> Unfortunately no information about the crash is recorded in the log
> files, and I did not find a clearly reproducable pattern. It usually
> happens once a day, although I start/shutdown the system only about 2-4
> times a day. This is extremely annoying, in particular when losing data
> after working on it all day.
>
You said the crash occurs on shutdown. Which data can you loose at this
point?
> I am using Thinkpad X40 with an integrated Intel 855GM graphics
> controller.
>
> Please tell me if and how I can provide further help.
>
Please send the whole output of /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script 3>&1
so that we see your config, log and hardware.
Is the machine pingable after the crash? Can you restart X without any
problem?
It would be good if you could:
* send us the log of the crashed session (if X already restarted, the
previous log is moved to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old)
* catch a backtrace with gdb after installing xserver-xorg-core-dbg and
xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg. The easiest way is to connect through ssh
from another machine, attach gdb with gdb -p $(pidof X), wait for the
crash to occurs, and then ru "bt full" in gdb.
Brice
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