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FS#33321 - [xorg-server] Random xorg crashes

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by c (c) - Monday, 07 January 2013, 13:28 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 01 July 2013, 10:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Xorg from testing randomly crashes on Intel 945GM and SNA enabled. Can anyone else reproduce Xorg crashes with the current xorg packages from testing?

Additional info:
* xf86-video-intel 2.20.17-1
* xorg-server 1.13.1-1
* xf86-input-evdev 2.7.3-2

Steps to reproduce:
Use Firefox and Opera for a while and maybe also MPlayer until Xorg randomly crashes leaving an unusable framebuffer console with the (hardware) mouse cursor still visible. One time it crashed while playing a video with MPlayer, another time while pressing Ctrl-q to quit Opera.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 01 July 2013, 10:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Assuming fixed, as indicated by c's comments. xorg-server and xf86-video-intel have been updated several times.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 07 January 2013, 14:32 GMT
Providing logs would be nice. This is just another random bugreport with random information to me.
Comment by c (c) - Monday, 07 January 2013, 16:01 GMT
I can provide /var/log/Xorg.log.0 that ends with a segfault notice and no stacktrace. If that's of use I will post it here next time it crashes. Oh and this started to happen last weekend. Have there been any relevant package updates which could have an effect?
Comment by c (c) - Tuesday, 05 February 2013, 10:44 GMT
It happened again but I unfortunately didn't remember to save logs from that.
Comment by c (c) - Saturday, 02 March 2013, 12:20 GMT
Another crash but this time with attached log.
   Xorg.0.crash (26 KiB)
Comment by Ken Wright (penguinsaregood) - Tuesday, 05 March 2013, 03:28 GMT
Changing accel method fixed the problem for me

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
EndSection
Comment by c (c) - Friday, 26 April 2013, 08:52 GMT
I don't remember a crash since March 2nd. Could one of the package updates have fixed this?
Comment by Nicolas Maître (nimai) - Thursday, 23 May 2013, 19:43 GMT
I've recently seen what seems to be the same issue, that is, the server crashes, leaving an unusable framebuffer console with the mouse cursor still visible.
Only, it only happens when I'm using Chromium. Sometimes it happens when I simply open the browser, sometimes it's when I open a new tab. Until now, I've identified only chromium as possible cause. I've got no log to show right now though.
Chromium is configured with all the default flags in chrome://flags, and WebGL doesn't seem to be enabled.

I use Intel graphics with SNA enabled too. For me it's a pretty recent issue, so I'm not sure this really is related to this bug, but the symptoms are quite similar.
Comment by Nicolas Maître (nimai) - Friday, 24 May 2013, 10:41 GMT
Probably not the same bug after all, since the logs don't match.
I assume I should open a new bug.
   Xorg.0.log (28.7 KiB)

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