Bug#516567: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: X-Server repeatedly crashes

[Andreas Cord-Landwehr]

Hello Brice,

I'm happy to announce a complete backtrace. No idea what was wrong the last
time. But this trace looks really "nice", at least if a segmentation fault
can look nice.

Greetings,
   Andreas

2009/2/23 Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin at ens-lyon.org>

> Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
> > Hi, I started the x-Server by statx. Then I connected by ssh, attatched
> > gdm. After this I waited until the server freezes/crashes. Then I
> > executed "bt full" in gdm and quit gdm.
>
> Oh, you mean "gdb", not "gdm" :)
>
> >  After this the Xorg process was
> > gone. I assume the gdm does not kill any processes it is attached to?
> >
>
> No. gdb catches the process before it dies because of this SIGABRT. When
> you detach gdb, the process behave as if gdb wasn't there, i.e. it dies
> from SIGABRT for real.
>
> > After considering when these crashes do occured, I think they can be
> > related to the new kwin effects for KDE 4.2. Especially on switching the
> > kde-desktops, loosing scope of window aso.
> >
>
> I doesn't justify the missing backtrace.
>
> I am puzzled...
>
> Brice
>
>
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