Bug#578270: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: X crash (back to gdm login) when loading compiz

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Michael Schmitt wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.13.0-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid
>
> Hi folks,
>
> as soon as I try to start compiz, X crashes and drops me back to GDM login. At least I
> do not see any errors in the logs.
> I did not use X / compiz regularly on this box (nor do I reboot it very often) so I do
> not know when exactly the proplem did occur. This day I installed kernel 2.6.32-4-686
> as DRI (and Xv) was broken (version missmatch according to Xorg log). As soon as logged
> in compiz started and crashed X. Disabled compiz, logged in, all works, manually
> started compiz -->> crash.
>
>   

If it's indeed a crash, please get a backtrace. There should be a basic
backtrace at the end of Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old if X restarted
since the crash). Then, you might catch a better backtrace with gdb.

Brice