Xorg crashes when firefox used.

ancient_archer · 2010-05-23 19:56:21

Hi, I had the sam problem on my Dell D600 and Radeon Mobility FireGL 9000. I've used solution written by ancient_archer and it looks that problem is solved. I hope this bug will be repaired and we can use newer kernel.

Hope that this solution holds and that X won't restart anymore when using this kernel. I also hope that new updates of kernel will fix those X restarts. I'm glad that my simple solution works for you and hopefully it'll work for the others, too.

ancient_archer · 2010-05-25 06:28:55

Unfortunately, X restarted again even with kernel 26-lts So the problem is probably in Xorg itself or in Ati driver.

jarda-wien · 2010-05-25 09:36:30

hello, I've tried kernel26-lts, but with my card (mobility radeon 7500) I see the same jibberish as with kernel26 with KMS disabled (probably because 2.6.27 had no KMS in the first place). Instead, I tried another thing: enabling the testing repo, which has kernel 2.6.34 and xorg 1.8. This step is pretty steep, because if you had any special config using old xorg and HAL, you would have to port those to the new system, plus it breaks some other stuff (like hibernation for example).

But the story is, up until now, no xorg crashes...
So good luck to the others with that.

btw: I recently bought a radeon 3850 agp version card for my northwood p4 based workstation. I shall see how this is going to work.

quayasil · 2010-05-31 14:57:15

Exactly the same under ThinkPad T42 with ATI Radeon 7500. I have Gentoo with 2.6.31 on the same machine and this problem doesn't exist.

Did anyone filled a [critical] bugreport anyway?

jarda-wien · 2010-05-31 16:39:13

quayasil wrote:

Did anyone filled a [critical] bugreport anyway?

No we have not, but there is a ubuntu bug report. It is mentioned in this thread.

ugeuder · 2010-06-16 08:49:53

Just FYI (no idea whether this is actually news for Arch) The bug has now been fixed in Ubuntu.

Packages xserver-common and xserver-xorg-core went from version to 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7 to 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7.1 and that fixes the issue. The relevant changelog entry seems to be

* Add 123_exa_sys_ptr_nullpointer_check.patch: Patch from upstream to
verify a pointer is not NULL before dereferencing it. Fixes X
segfault in miCopyRegion which occurs while using firefox (e.g. typing
into fields in AOL). Issue found by Jerry Lamos.
(LP: #539772)

kierank01 · 2010-06-19 10:56:26

I have this issue on an x31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY [1002:4c59].

This is a new installation of arch, so I can't say anything about the history of this issue.

I have moved the FF search box to the left of the address bar, and x has not restarted in the couple of searches.

kierank01 · 2010-06-19 12:28:28

kierank01 wrote:

I have moved the FF search box to the left of the address bar, and x has not restarted in the couple of searches.

spoke too soon

jarda-wien · 2010-06-20 12:07:12

After looking through the ubuntu and xorg bug reports, it seems that this has been fixed in xorg 1.8. You could build it yourself or use the testing repo (which I currently do, and have not seen any crashes since).

Beware that xorg 1.8 has changed the device hotpluging config. It is already covered in our wiki though and it should not be a problem adapting your current special config, if any.

cippaciong · 2010-06-21 08:25:21

Hi!
I'm new in this forum and quite new with Arch; anyway, I was following this topic since I've the same problems (Ati card and X crashes). With the last upgrade it install kernel 2.6.34 and xorg 1.8 so the problem should be solved.

jarda-wien · 2010-06-23 17:08:21

cippaciong wrote:

Hi!
I'm new in this forum and quite new with Arch; anyway, I was following this topic since I've the same problems (Ati card and X crashes). With the last upgrade it install kernel 2.6.34 and xorg 1.8 so the problem should be solved.

Yes indeed, xorg 1.8 is out, so there is no need to use the testing repo. I can confirm that I've had no crashes even with testing. Let's hope that the stable packages will prove to fix this.

jarda-wien · 2010-06-23 17:09:19

BTW if more people can confirm that there are no crashes any more, we can mark this thread as solved...

cippaciong · 2010-06-23 17:14:46

No crashes in these two days though now I've some problems with the suspension :-)!
Anyway, problem of FF solved

quayasil · 2010-06-23 20:38:13

After recent upgrades my notebooks don't wake up after resume:
1. ThinkPad T42: my X sessions freeze, I'm able to switch to other console, log in and shutdown the system (which works extremely unstable)
2. ThinkPad T40: the notebook is completely dead :-( A hard restart is required

cippaciong · 2010-06-23 20:47:02

Hp compaq nc6000 like your T42. After resume I can switch from a space to another or use the terminal to reboot (arch+openbox+xfce4-power-manager).

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