Bug#514817: xserver-xorg: random X crashes / lockups on AMD64 (AMD Phenom)

[Steve Kostecke <steve@debian.org>]

Brice Goglin said:

>Could you catch a debugging backtrace with gdb (through ssh) after
>installing libpixman-1-0-dbg and xserver-xorg-core-dbg?

Sorry for the delay.

I had found a libpixman crash related bug report which claimed that
using GCC-4.1 to compile libpixman solved the problem. In my case I did
note a greatly reduced frequency of X crashes (i.e. only one in a week
instead of 4-10 per day).

I am now attempting to catch a debugging backtrace.

When I tried to start gdb against /usr/bin/Xorg I discovered that my
system was running /usr/bin/X.. That has been changed and I now have:

13827 tty7     Ss+    0:40 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-vWZql0
14099 pts/0    S+     0:00 gdb /usr/bin/Xorg

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Steve Kostecke <steve@debian.org>