Bug#949257: xserver-xorg-core: Segmentation fault w/ 1.20.7

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2020-01-19 00:09:13 +0000, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.20.7-2
> Severity: grave
> 
> Setup is a NVIDIA GF108GL [Quadro 600] driving two monitors in
> portrait orientation.  Kernel 5.4.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.4.8-1 (2020-01-05)
> 
> xorg.conf is:
> Section "Device"
>  Identifier     "GF108GL"
>  Driver         "nouveau"
[...]
> Crash is consistent, and goes away once downgraded to 1.20.6, other
> relevant package versions:
> 
> libdrm-nouveau2:amd64                                   2.4.100-4
> xdm                                                     1:1.1.11-3+b1
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau                              1:1.0.16-1
> 
> Crash:
> 
> [   590.914] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVEnterVT is called.
> [   590.914] (EE) 
> [   590.914] (EE) Backtrace:
[...]

I wonder whether the problem could be related to the nouveau driver.
I've had lots a problems (crashes...) with it, on a machine I do not
use very much. The last one a few weeks ago:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946524
  (trapped write in the nouveau driver)

Try to look at the system logs too...

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