Bug#757982: xserver segmentation fault

[Michel Dänzer]

On 08.09.2014 20:32, repron wrote:
>
> Last several freezes of Xorg, coused that Xorg.o.log file ended suddenly, without SIGSEGV.
> I am still trying to reproduce exactly the same state of "freeze" as mentioned in the bug.
> Of course it can be a bug in kernel or somewhere else but if I had uninstalled packages
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon, xserver-xorg-video-iti
> and installed in that place packages:
> fglrx-modules-dkms and firmware-linux-nonfree
> the error of  "freezing" did not appeared.

(Note that the firmware-linux-nonfree package is required for the radeon 
driver, not for fglrx, but the information you've provided shows that it 
was installed)


It seems like the crashes you're experiencing are more or less random 
and all over the place. I can think of two basic explanations for that: 
Either the GPU is scribbling over random system memory locations, or 
there is a problem with the RAM or some other hardware component in the 
system.

You can test for the latter with the memtest86(+) or memtester package.


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