Bug 111764 – GQview locks up X with nvidia 1.0.7676

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sridhar Dhanapalan 2005-11-06 23:27:29 UTC]

Whenever I start GQview (2.0.1 or 2.1.1), my X server locks up. My system
appears to be completely frozen, apart from mouse movements (not clicks). I
can't switch to a console, but I can ssh into the box from another computer and
kill X, after which everything is fine. This began happening after upgrading
GNOME to 2.12.

At a guess, it might be an issue with GTK+.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0,
gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-yama i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-yama i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10
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-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr
-fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=64 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
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/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr
-fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=64 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
DISTDIR="/data2/portage-local/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache digest distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/gentoo
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/gentoo
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_AU"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/data2/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/data2/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/data2/portage-local /data2/portage-bmg-main
/data2/portage-gentopia"
SYNC="rsync://mirror.internode.on.net/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts
artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo cairo
cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl dbus dga divx4linux dts dvd
dvdr dvdread eds effects emboss encode esd faad fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac
flash foomaticdb fortran freetype freetype2 gb gd gdbm gecko-sdk ggi ggz gif
gimpprint glitz gnome gnome-libs gnome-print gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtkhtml guile hal howl icq imagemagick imlib inkjar ipv6 ithreads jabber java
javascript jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal lesstif libcaca libg++ libwww
lzo mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mono motif mozilla moznomail
mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer msn musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses network nocd
noplugin nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia objprelink offensive ogg oggvorbis
ooo-kde opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl pic plugin png ppds prelink python qt
qtmt quicktime rar readline real rtc samba sblive scanner sdl session shadow
shorten slang slp smime sndfile snmp speex spell sqlite sse ssl stream subtitles
svg svga tcltk tcpd tex tga theora threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev unicode usb utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd videos vim-with-x vorbis
win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xanim xface xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xrandr
xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-11-07 10:17:29 UTC]

Which version of xorg-x11 is installed?

Please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old (the log from the freeze, which gets moved
to .old after restarting X) and xorg.conf, then reopen.

[Comment 2 Sridhar Dhanapalan 2005-11-08 01:53:32 UTC]

I found the problem. It was the Nvidia graphics driver, version 1.0.7676.
Downgrading to the latest version which is marked as stable (1.0.6629) did the
trick. The nv driver works fine as well.

This suggests some kind of incompatibility between GNOME 2.12 (or GTK+ 2.8) and
the latest Nvidia driver. I had been using that driver for quite some time with
no ill effects, and the problem only started after upgrading from GNOME 2.10 to
2.12. Since GQview is a GTK+ app (not a GNOME app), I think it is more likely to
be an incompatibility with GTK+ 2.8 (GTK+ 2.6 worked fine).

Discussion at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=2856096

I'll reopen the bug, but if you want me to open a new one just let me know.

[Comment 3 Sridhar Dhanapalan 2005-11-08 01:57:12 UTC]

Created attachment 72431 [details]
Xorg log

I am using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 for my windowing system. Here is a log of
a session in which I load GQview and X.org freezes.

[Comment 4 Sridhar Dhanapalan 2005-11-08 01:58:19 UTC]

Created attachment 72432 [details]
xorg.conf

My xorg.conf file.

[Comment 5 Federico Ferri (RETIRED) 2005-11-21 08:58:42 UTC]

please, tell us if turning off RenderAccel option in xorg.conf solves something.

I have lockups everytime I launch firefox or thunderbird with
nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r2 and RenderAccel set to true.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2007-03-16 14:06:00 UTC]

Is this bug still valid after a full system update?

[Comment 7 Sridhar Dhanapalan 2007-03-17 00:44:50 UTC]

This bug is not present with newer versions of the Nvidia driver. You might wish to close this ticket.