Bug 456682 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.2 with x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.6 crashes when displaying larger images in applications like Firefox and Ristretto.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Vladimir 2013-02-10 18:19:56 UTC]

media-gfx/ristretto-0.6.3 makes X-server to crash when I try to view this image:

http://ftp.wombat.org.ua/Solar_eclips_1999_4.jpg    (3,1M)

This is a very strange thing that had never happened on my machine before, so I decided to report it here, however I am not sure about the source of the problem.

Reproducible: Always





The end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is this:

[ 22563.609] (EE) Backtrace:
[ 22563.609] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x34) [0x591724]
[ 22563.609] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x195419) [0x595419]
[ 22563.609] (EE) 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f9e9ffd9000+0x10a10) [0x7f9e9ffe9a10]
[ 22563.609] (EE) 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so (0x7f9e9d8bc000+0x752e) [0x7f9e9d8c352e]
[ 22563.609] (EE) 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x7f9e9d276000+0x9746) [0x7f9e9d27f746]
[ 22563.609] (EE) 5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x11d374) [0x51d374]
[ 22563.610] (EE) 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x3782e) [0x43782e]
[ 22563.610] (EE) 7: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x3aba9) [0x43aba9]
[ 22563.610] (EE) 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x29b35) [0x429b35]
[ 22563.610] (EE) 9: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7f9e9ec6b90d]
[ 22563.610] (EE) 10: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x29e81) [0x429e81]
[ 22563.610] (EE) 
[ 22563.610] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x24c7000
[ 22563.610] 
Fatal server error:
[ 22563.610] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[ 22563.610] 
[ 22563.610] (EE) 

Here is a link to a complete X-server log: http://bpaste.net/show/76453/

[Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-02-10 19:17:50 UTC]

Please don't increase the importance field, this is for the maintainer. We have had someone with this issue earlier, and he also used nouveau; as a result, I am generalizing this bug against xorg-server and xf86-video-nouveau.

[Comment 2 woddfellow2 2013-02-10 19:26:33 UTC]

Created attachment 338542 [details]
dmesg output

[Comment 3 woddfellow2 2013-02-10 19:27:16 UTC]

Created attachment 338544 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

[Comment 4 woddfellow2 2013-02-10 19:28:43 UTC]

I have the same problem. If I attempt to view a large image in Firefox,
the next thing I see is tty1. If I start X again, and then attempt to
start Firefox again, it freezes, followed by a garbled display. I must
then do a physical reboot.

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PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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[Comment 5 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-02-10 22:30:27 UTC]

I have seen reports that nouveau has sometimes problems with images which are too large (uncompressed) to fit in video memory. But it is probably best if you report this bug upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

You might be asked to submit a proper backtrace, http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging has instructions how to obtain it.

[Comment 6 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-04-25 13:51:52 UTC]

- Does this still happen with the latest version of both packages?

- Have you reported this upstream?

  If so, can you link us to that bug such that we can track it?

[Comment 7 Vladimir 2013-04-25 15:11:12 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> - Does this still happen with the latest version of both packages?
> 
> - Have you reported this upstream?
> 
>   If so, can you link us to that bug such that we can track it?
Currenlty I have x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.1 and x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.7 packages installed, and I can open the mentioned example images with Ristretto with no crashes.

I did not report it upstream, but here is a similar bugreport: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61069

[Comment 8 Matt Turner 2015-02-22 22:00:42 UTC]

Hopefully long since fixed. If not please file a bug upstream.