Bug 107057 – xscreensaver causes XFCE to crash while compiling in the xterminal

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dylan 2005-09-23 20:02:30 UTC]

compiling in XFCE causes xterminal to crash whenever xscreensaver starts.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start XFCE (or possibly other desktop enviornment that uses xscreensaver)
2.open up a terminal program
3.emerge something that will take some time (kdelibs for example) or just emerge
--sync && emerge -uD world (if you haven't done so in awhile)
4.go grab a cup of cofee and  wait for xscreensaver to start
5.BAM! watch the xterminal die!
Actual Results:  
see step 5

Expected Results:  
started a nice little screensaver display and allow programs in the xterminal to
compile normally

Using Nvidia drivers, nvidia PCI card
# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.70GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -momit-leaf-frame-pointer
-fomit-frame-pointer -ftra cer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shu tdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -momit-leaf-frame-pointer
-fomit-frame-pointer -ft racer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdr
crypt cups curl directfb di vx4linux emboss encode fam fbcon flac foomaticdb
fortran gdbm ggi gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick  imlib java jpeg kde
libcaca libg++ libwww live mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg nas ncurses
nls n ptl nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png
python qt quicktime readline  real sdl soundtouch spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga
tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vor bis win32codecs xine
xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-09-24 00:17:57 UTC]

Can you get a backtrace out of the term?

[Comment 2 Dylan 2005-10-03 16:16:18 UTC]

not sure how but w/ additional testing I've found this to be an XFCE problem,
xscreensaver works when compiling in fluxbox (slow but it works) seems if CPU is
stressed w/ multiple aplications XFCE will just crash.

[Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-10-03 18:16:05 UTC]

Thanks, re-assigning.

[Comment 4 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-12-11 09:51:44 UTC]

Does this occur only when compiling stuff, or does it happen regardless of your doing if xscreensaver?

I ask because I've been noticing I went away from my laptop for a while, and came back to a login manager... and specifically, I wasn't compiling anything, or doing anything cpu intensive.

[Comment 5 Sideris Michael 2006-12-12 15:18:57 UTC]

Cannot reproduce at all. This actually seems to be quite old as well, so, you might considering closing this bug report. Maybe version specific?

[Comment 6 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-12-27 18:36:09 UTC]

Can't reproduce, marking WORKSFORME.

[Comment 7 Pariksheet Nanda 2007-12-30 01:03:25 UTC]

I agree with Dylan, this is an XFCE problem.
When I go click on "Quit" in the XFCE menu, instead of prompting me to log-off, restart, shutdown, etc...  xsession just crashes with this error:

-- snip --- snip --- snip ---
waiting for X server to shut down xscreensaver: 05:30:05: SIGHUP received: restarting...
xscreensaver: 05:30:05: running as pariksheet/pariksheet (1000/1000)

xfce-mcs-manager: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

      after 1666946 requests (1666942 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

xfce4-panel: Fatal IO error 4 (Interrupted system call) on X server :0.0.
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0
xscreensaver: running as pariksheet/pariksheet (1000/1000)

xscreensaver: Errors at startup are usually authorization problems.
              But you're not logging in as root (good!) so something
              else must be wrong.  Did you read the manual and the FAQ?

              http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html
              http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man.html


I just done a full system update, so all are packages up-to-date.
My emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:46:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6, 2.5.1-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/rc.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d /usr/share/X11"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ "
LINGUAS="hi"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl alsa amd amd64 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdread encode fame firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gmedia gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg live lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad matroska midi mjpeg mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles svg swat symlink tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode vorbis wma wmp xanim xcomposite xorg xscreensaver xv xvid 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 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 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="hi" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS