Bug#857614: Crash within nouveau when tabbing between windows in gnome-shell

[Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:19:37PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2017-03-13 10:05 +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> 
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> > Version: 1:1.0.13-1+b1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > This is a crash within gnome-shell, but the backtrace indicates it's
> > within nouveau_dri.so so filing this here.
> 
> The correct package is libgl1-mesa-dri, reassigning.

Doh, I should have realised that!

> > Every now and then (unfortunately I have not figured out how to reliably
> > make the issue occur) when alt-tab between windows gnome-shell will
> > crash. It restarts ok, and the only visable effect is all the window
> > decorations disappearing and then reappearing. I managed to run it
> > within gdb and catch the following backtrace; I did not have
> > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg installed at the time to get further
> > information but I will see if I can reproduce the issue now I have it
> > installed.
> 
> You had better install libgl1-mesa-dri-dbgsym from the testing-debug
> repository[1], because that's where the crash happens.

Thanks, done. Will follow up if/when I reproduce.

J.

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