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Bug#618622: xserver-xorg-core: crash when resizing screen while running a fullscreen application



On Don, 2011-03-17 at 10:30 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: 
> 2011/3/17 Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>:
> > On Don, 2011-03-17 at 09:31 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> >> 2011/3/17 Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>:
> >> > On Don, 2011-03-17 at 00:46 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Running a fullscreen d3d application that changes screen mode (such as
> >> >> Vazteroids, in Wine) causes one screen to go blank and the other to
> >> >> switch to the resolution the application requested.
> >> >>
> >> >> When I run my script that sets the main screen to native resolution and
> >> >> reenables the other screen and exit the d3d application X crashes.
> >> >
> >> > Please try to provide more information about the crash. Preferably a
> >> > full gdb backtrace, but at least an X log file with a backtrace.
> >>
> >> It's a double free (abort) so there is no backtrace in the log. There
> >> is a gdb backtrace attached to the original report.
> >
> > Oh, I didn't notice the attachment, and you didn't mention it.
> >
> > Probably the fastest way to track down the problem would be to run the X
> > server in valgrind.
> 
> A valgrind log showing some (probably unrelated) issues.
> 
> As I need to run the X server as root to run in valgrind the
> environment is different and there is probably some piece missing.
> 
> I can't reproduce the crash as root with valgrind or without.

The X server always runs as root. You can run the clients from the same
user accounts as before.


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