Bug 306567

Summary:	x11-wm/awesome-3.4.3 crashes due to Lua stack overflow
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aaron Mavrinac (ezod) <mavrinac>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Alex Alexander (RETIRED) <wired>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	major	CC:	des-colo
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	slim.log

Description Aaron Mavrinac (ezod) 2010-02-23 20:17:49 UTC

Awesome 3.4.3 crashes after various long (hours) periods of uptime with the following error:

W: awesome: luaA_panic:679: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (too much signal)), restarting awesome

Stack traces vary, and the bug is difficult to reproduce due to requiring long uptimes with extensive use. It is possible Chromium (browser) makes frequent use of whatever is causing the issue, as I see the bug much sooner when using it.

This appears to conform precisely to upstream bug #701 [1], where the problem has been traced to some memory leaks on the Lua stack.

[1] http://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=701

Comment 1 Helmuth Schmelzer 2010-03-09 01:07:09 UTC

I happened the same error, is caused by X programs using the wm very strenuous, but the cpu nor the half, running for hours estubo asi and slim.log I noticed the error, so much the stowage using wm aMule was nothing more

Comment 2 Helmuth Schmelzer 2010-03-09 01:17:25 UTC

Created attachment 222755 [details]
slim.log

Here I give you leave to slim.log where the bug that causes the X server crash and restart, the culprit is awesome with some apps

wtf was I escape some characters in Spanish in the previous message, sorry

Comment 3 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-05 22:55:25 UTC

Is this still an issue with recent awesome versions?