Bug#844523: Debian xserver freeze
Control: severity -1 important
Control: reassign -1 xserver-xorg-core 2:1.16.4-1
On 16/11/16 15:30, Carmelo C wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.7+7
> Severity: critical
> Tags: security
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> For some time I noticed that browsing with firefox on the site: twitter or
> google maps, it happens that the system freezes and I have to unplug the laptop
> from the switch. The problem also occurs when I open gimp and applying
> contrast, saturation or adjusting the levels of an image, the system freezes.
> log attached refers to Xorg.1.log file
It looks like your xserver is crashing:
> [ 562.292] (EE) Backtrace:
> [ 562.292] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x52) [0xb76ad552]
> [ 562.293] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0xb7507000+0x1aa7f2) [0xb76b17f2]
> [ 562.293] (EE) 2: linux-gate.so.1 (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb74e3d28]
> [ 562.293] (EE)
> [ 562.293] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
> [ 562.293] (EE)
> FatalError re-entered, aborting
> [ 562.293] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
> [ 562.293] (EE)
Unfortunately that trace isn't very useful. To debug this, we'd need a gdb
backtrace with debugging symbols. Though I'm not sure how likely this is going
to get fixed in such an old version...
Cheers,
Emilio
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