Xorg crashes at random points after upgrade.

leandroaveiro · 2009-11-12 20:12:46

Maybe this isn't a nvdia related problem, or ati... I've suspend compositing... so far so good... I guess we should expect an update soon, at least I hope...

onyx.nz · 2009-11-16 10:18:56

Same issue. Arch testing,64 bit AMD, nVidia 8500GT, Gnome 2.28.0. Tried with Compiz off and on.

But I found the culprit (not the fix yet)... QT integration with GTK. Specifically, the system can start fine with Skype. If I quit Skype and then reload Skype, instant Xserver reboot, every time. Otherwise, the reboot of X is intermittent, but most often happens interacting with Thunderbird ( Skype is always open too ). Other QT apps don't make it flip out... but then I don't know if Skype is using KDE 3.5 libs or 4.

Have any (or all of you) got Skype running?

presario · 2009-11-16 13:30:13

presario wrote:

I'm experiencing the same problem on windows too.

Maybe it's just because my video card is overheating...

Trindol · 2009-11-18 13:50:56

This happened to me for the first time last night. Crashed and went to GDM login screen when I tried to run GIMP.
64 bit, 8300GS, all packages updated. I run a bare-bones Gnome set up, no fancy graphics. Hmm...

onyx.nz · 2009-11-18 20:02:34

Seems the Skype thing is a red herring too. It does happen every time I use Skype, but I've just tried to use Brasero - which is pure GTK, and burn a disk image. I cannot, because the session restarts every time. So something is inherently unstable in the new XOrg, but I've not been able to catch anything in the logs at all yet.:mad: What are the pacman commands to roll this puppy back a version of Xorg?

onyx.nz · 2009-11-19 07:54:17

Ok, rolling back package version for xorg is the fix for me;

cd /path/to/pacman/cache
sudo pacman -U xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz xf86-video-vesa-2.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz xorg-server-1.6.3.901-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

(I am using 64-bit. YMMV)

Now I can have Thunderbird open, open and close Skype, without a crash. Wunderbar!

virusso80 · 2009-11-19 09:17:23

I have the same problem using gimp. But it doesn't happen everytime! Most of the time, when i paste dome image from clipboard, then it crashes. I'm using kdemod over a nvidia.

very annoying

I'll stay tuned to understand what's going on and I'll try to find the fix

fettouhi · 2009-11-22 08:54:55

I think it has to do with theming in gtk apps when you use kde4-gtk all my gtk apps crash xorg randomly.

Regards

André

rune0077 · 2009-11-22 14:17:16

fettouhi wrote:

I think it has to do with theming in gtk apps when you use kde4-gtk all my gtk apps crash xorg randomly.
Regards
André

Hmm, I got an update to kde4-gtk just now. Haven't re-upgraded xorg though so can't comment on any improvements. Maybe I'll have time to test it tonight.

subnex · 2009-11-22 19:18:22

I am usig kdemod4 and experiencing the same problems. it often happened about 4-5 hours after startup. i solved the problem by letting openbox manage the windows instead of kdm and haven't had any problems the last week, and the desktops speed improved as well;)

JAcky · 2009-11-23 11:51:29

cd /path/to/pacman/cache
sudo pacman -U xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz xf86-video-vesa-2.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz xorg-server-1.6.3.901-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

I just want to throw my "me too" in here. The above solved my problem as well, not sure if the versions where the same but I installed the previous version of the above packages and downgraded the nvidia driver as well.
So far, no more problems.

Edit: System: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 5600+, RAM 4GB, GeForce 9600 GT, KDE 4.3.3.
Crash would always return me to my login screen. I noticed that, after a crash, I could still hear sound when playing music with a KDE app (Amarok) but not with vlc or from a flash video (Adobe Flash plugin)

Edit2: Here is what I found in my Xorg.0.log.old

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x45b7d8]
1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x62689) [0x462689]
2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ff660381000+0xee80) [0x7ff66038fe80]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7ff65c12d000+0xa4aa2) [0x7ff65c1d1aa2]
4: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x7ff6609ec000+0xa6d2) [0x7ff6609f66d2]
5: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x7ff6609ec000+0x352a9) [0x7ff660a212a9]
6: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x7ff6609ec000+0x2f9ab) [0x7ff660a1b9ab]
7: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x7ff6609ec000+0x37722) [0x7ff660a23722]
8: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x7ff6609ec000+0x38a90) [0x7ff660a24a90]
9: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x7ff6609ec000+0x2f6ba) [0x7ff660a1b6ba]
10: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (pixman_image_composite+0x17c) [0x7ff660a1c4ec]
11: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so (wfbComposite+0x163) [0x7ff65bd01c43]
12: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7ff65c12d000+0x33e817) [0x7ff65c46b817]
13: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xab2e0) [0x4ab2e0]
14: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x11e309) [0x51e309]
15: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x11e5d5) [0x51e5d5]
16: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x11ddd6) [0x51ddd6]
17: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2fca6) [0x42fca6]
18: /usr/bin/X (MapWindow+0x153) [0x431e13]
19: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x45946) [0x445946]
20: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x46674) [0x446674]
21: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2205c) [0x42205c]
22: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7ff65f429b6d]
23: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x21c09) [0x421c09]
Segmentation fault at address 0x7ff674517000

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

Last edited by JAcky (2009-11-23 12:06:09)

onyx.nz · 2009-11-23 20:26:23

Have just done a pacman -Syu, which upgraded xorg and nvidia beyond the offending packages, and everything still works.
xorg-server is now at version 1.7.1.902-1-x86_64 xf86-input-evdev-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-video-vesa-2.2.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz xorg-xinit-1.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
nvidia-utils-190.42-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

rune0077 · 2009-11-23 21:40:41

onyx.nz wrote:

Have just done a pacman -Syu, which upgraded xorg and nvidia beyond the offending packages, and everything still works.
xorg-server is now at version 1.7.1.902-1-x86_64 xf86-input-evdev-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-video-vesa-2.2.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz xorg-xinit-1.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
nvidia-utils-190.42-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Yay, me to. Removed all the ignorepkg from pacman.conf, ran full update, and so far no crashes. Before, EasyTag and Deluge (gtk apps) would cause crash every time, but I've had both running fine. No crashes so far, so problem seems fixed for me.

Cinder · 2009-11-30 16:06:35

Same here, just upgraded the ignored packages and it seems to be stable for the past 15 minutes.

sschober · 2009-12-02 09:06:11

I tried updating but still experience crashing:

==> Software upgrade (new version) :
extra/nvidia 185.18.36-2 -> 190.42-1
extra/nvidia-utils 185.18.36-1 -> 190.42-2
extra/xf86-input-evdev 2.2.5-1 -> 2.3.1-1
extra/xf86-video-vesa 2.2.0-1 -> 2.2.1-1
extra/xorg-server 1.6.3.901-1 -> 1.7.2-2

na12 · 2009-12-12 19:06:54

I have same thing with ATI.

slot · 2009-12-12 19:37:07

I was going to install arch this evening, i686, but no xorg-server on any repos at all??

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