Bug 353923 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2: Hang with dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.5.1-r1 and KDE-4.4.5 using an Intel Mobile 4 graphics controller

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description dio 2011-02-07 05:18:52 UTC]

Sometimes already after 2 minutes, sometimes after more than an hour working on eclipse-3.5.1, the GUI suddenly freezes after an arbitrary operation, sometimes even in the middle of rendering an appearing dialog.

Neither the mouse nor the keyboard would react to any kind of events (Ctrl-Alt-Del included), and the only way to continue is switching the power off.  Luckily, on my Panasonic CF-F8, clicking the switch shortly shuts down the machine orderly as if by entering halt on the command line.

This behavior appears only when working with eclipse.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




The CPU applet and the thermal sensor applets show that the system is relatively relaxed at the time; no heavy background tasks are running.

[Comment 1 dio 2011-02-07 05:20:57 UTC]

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.34-gentoo-r6-07 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r6-07-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P9300_@_2.26GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/maven-bin-2.2/conf /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X X509 a52 aac acl acpi alsa aspell avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cleartype cli consolekit corefonts cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus doc dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac flash fontconfig fontforge fortran gcj gd gdbm gdu gif gimp gpg gpm gssapi iconv jadetex java java6 jpeg kde kpathsea laptop latex latex3 lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors lzma mad mdnsresponder-compat mikmod mmap mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysqli ncurses nls nptlonly odbc ogg openexr opengl openmp openntpd openssl pam pango pcre pdf perl php png policykit posix ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline samba sasl session slp smbclient smp sms spell sse sse2 sse3 ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg svga swat sysfs sysvipc tcpd tiff truetype type3 udev unicode usb utempter vhosts vorbis wav wavpack win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xhtml xine xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="brother2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 2 dio 2011-02-07 17:32:44 UTC]

Out of an intuition, I turned off compositing today and was able to work in eclipse for several hours without interruption.  This doesn't prove anything, but may be a hint.

I also remember having noticed that many times the GUI froze was while executing a desktop effect such as fading, scaling in or sliding.

[Comment 3 dio 2011-02-11 18:27:54 UTC]

I have turned off compositing for good now, and never had the effect again.  The GUI seems to freeze only when eclipse is run with compositing on.

I sure would like to revert to having compositing turned on, however, so I leave the bug open, but step back the severity to normal.

[Comment 4 Jeremy Murphy 2014-09-13 07:40:39 UTC]

None of these versions are still in Portage: can the OP comment on whether the issue still exists in current versions or otherwise close the bug?
If it is still an issue, please state the version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel you are using too.  Thanks, cheers.

[Comment 5 dio 2014-09-14 17:12:22 UTC]

The system I used in this case is now long gone, and on the other systems I now use, this effect is non-existent.