Playing video through the xv extensions causes the X server to crash after some time (sometimes 2, sometimes 15 minutes). This only started happening after a recent update of X and related packages, but strangely reverting to the old versions of the packages does not fix the bug. I'm using the Intel i915 graphics driver (Thinkpad X300). Specifically, I have reverted to x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.4-r1 x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.10 x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.27 (I used to be on ~x86) I did not install a new kernel after the update. Video output works fine using the x11 driver. I have found several bug reports on the internet that report a similar problem (i.e. X segfaulting with xv, but not with x11), but nobody is using the same hardware/drivers as I am, so I'm not sure if the problems are related. I have only observed the bug when playing video fullscreen, but haven't tested playing non-fullscreen in depth. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start X. 2. Start playing a video fullscreen using xv. Actual Results: X crashes. Expected Results: X doesn't crash. xvinfo output: X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adaptor #0: "Intel(R) Textured Video" number of ports: 16 port base: 73 operations supported: PutImage supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x21 number of attributes: 1 "XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK" (range -1 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) maximum XvImage size: 8192 x 8192 Number of image formats: 5 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x30323449 (I420) guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x59565955 (UYVY) guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x434d5658 (XVMC) guid: 58564d43-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) Adaptor #1: "Intel(R) Video Overlay" number of ports: 1 port base: 89 operations supported: PutImage supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x21 number of attributes: 11 "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 66046) "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is -19) "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 255) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 75) "XV_SATURATION" (range 0 to 1023) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 146) "XV_PIPE" (range -1 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is -1) "XV_GAMMA0" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 526344) "XV_GAMMA1" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1052688) "XV_GAMMA2" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 2105376) "XV_GAMMA3" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 4210752) "XV_GAMMA4" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 8421504) "XV_GAMMA5" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 12632256) maximum XvImage size: 2048 x 2048 Number of image formats: 4 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x30323449 (I420) guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x59565955 (UYVY) guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) relevant lspci output: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) emerge --info: Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.1.0-gentooronin i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.1.0-gentooronin-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_L7100_@_1.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:30:02 +0000 ccache version 3.1.6 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9::<unknown repository> dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3::<unknown repository> dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r2::<unknown repository>, 2.7.1-r1::<unknown repository>, 3.1.4-r3::<unknown repository> dev-util/ccache: 3.1.6::<unknown repository> dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4::<unknown repository> dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26::<unknown repository> sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3::<unknown repository> sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1::<unknown repository> sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5::<unknown repository> sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::<unknown repository>, 2.68::<unknown repository> sys-devel/automake: 1.5::<unknown repository>, 1.9.6-r3::<unknown repository>, 1.10.3::<unknown repository>, 1.11.1::<unknown repository> sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1::<unknown repository> sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4::<unknown repository>, 4.4.5::<unknown repository>, 4.5.3-r1::<unknown repository> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1::<unknown repository> sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1::<unknown repository> sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1::<unknown repository> sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39::<unknown repository> (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4::<unknown repository> Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /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 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg lcms ldap libnotify mad mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt3support qt4 readline sdl session spell ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" 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" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" 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, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS I'm attaching the X server log with the crash backtrace.
Created attachment 298423 [details] X server log
Please also report this upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ (if no report already exists) and provide the link here. For reporting upstream it would be best to give a stack trace using xorg-server-1.11. You might be asked to upgrade to kernel 3.2. Besides, you could check if enabling sna for xf86-video-intel and/or running mplayer -vo gl makes any difference.
Upstream bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44642 SNA is enabled (and was before), will try if disabling it makes a difference. mplayer -vo gl crashes the X server as well, reports something about the GPU being stuck in an infinite loop. In this case I have to reboot the machine, screen just goes blank and nothing I does brings it back.
Are you still having troubles with the latest ~arch ebuild (2.20.14 as of today). If so, please update the upstream bug report. Thanks
