Bug#615959: happens more often

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

Hi,

> it seems calloc is failing, which I find a bit dubious. 

Well, actually, the only message I could extract wasn't that it was
failing, it was reporting malloc corruption.

> It might be an
> ongoing memory corruption having later side effects, maybe? 

Hmm, that reminds me -- I also had random kernel crashes recently, and
this is 2.6.38-rc6. Yes, it's possible, but it could also just be a
double-free or so I guess.

OTOH, this also happens when I boot 2.6.37, which had no issues prior to
updating the Xserver packages.

> You may
> want to check what happens with X server 1.10 from experimental (this
> will require you to update those packages, mostly: xserver-xorg-core
> plus xserver-xorg-{input,video}-$driver).

Still happens with

$ apt-show-versions |grep xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg/unstable uptodate 1:7.6+4
xserver-xorg-core/experimental uptodate 2:1.9.99.903-1
xserver-xorg-core-dbg/experimental uptodate 2:1.9.99.903-1
xserver-xorg-dev/unstable uptodate 2:1.9.4-3
xserver-xorg-input-evdev/experimental uptodate 1:2.6.0-3
xserver-xorg-input-kbd/experimental uptodate 1:1.5.99.901-1+exp1
xserver-xorg-input-mouse/experimental uptodate 1:1.6.99.901-1+exp1
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/experimental uptodate 1.3.99.901-1+exp1
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/experimental uptodate 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2+exp2
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg/experimental uptodate 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2+exp2
xserver-xorg-video-vesa/experimental uptodate 1:2.3.0-5+exp2


Thanks,
Johannes