Bug#581448: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: crash when reading RSS feeds in Thunderbird

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2010-05-12 at 08:03 -0700, Laurent Charrière wrote: 
> 
> This is on a Thinkpad T41 with a Radeon Mobility 7500.
> 
> The crash happens regularly, but not always, when I read RSS feeds in
> Thunderbird. More precisely it happens when I press n to go to the next unread
> message. Strangely enough I haven't seen the crash in other circumstances. I
> use Thunderbird as packaged by Mozilla Messaging (not icedove), version
> 2.0.0.24 (20100228).
> 
> The backtrace from Xorg.0.log.old is as follows:
> 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80ad72b]
> 1: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x5a8a5) [0x80a28a5]
> 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb788e40c]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (0xb7350000+0xb1cb9)
> [0xb7401cb9]
> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0xb7307000+0x9560) [0xb7310560]
> 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0xb7307000+0x9628) [0xb7310628]
> 6: /usr/bin/X (miCopyRegion+0x21b) [0x81a2e6b]
> 7: /usr/bin/X (miDoCopy+0x44d) [0x81a338d]
> 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0xb7307000+0x7b1a) [0xb730eb1a]
> 9: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0xcc673) [0x8114673]
> 10: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x29fa5) [0x8071fa5]
> 11: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x2c117) [0x8074117]
> 12: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1e93a) [0x806693a]
> 13: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb75c0b55]
> 14: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1e521) [0x8066521]
> Segmentation fault at address (nil)
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

[...]

> X.Org X Server 1.7.6.901 (1.7.7 RC 1)

This should be fixed in xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-1.


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