Random guess: Could be related to http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=711e26466ae04ae93ff4c48d377d83d68a6320e9 ?
Brice Patrik Olsson wrote: > Source: xorg-server > Version: 2:1.7.4-2 > Severity: important > > In about 1 of 5 times that I close OpenGL programs (that I have > written), the X server crashes. It doesn't seem to happen when I kill or > "^C" them, though. It is likely the programs are misbehaving (for > example, I currently don't clean up all X and GLX resources before exit, > and maybe I mix both new and old GLX api). I don't have the problem with > other OpenGL programs I have tested such as glxgears or glxinfo. I any > case, I don't think the server should crash, no matter whether > programs/clients are misbehaving or not. Also, I should mention that in > previous versions of the server, I didn't have the problem. > > I attached to the process with gdb and below is a debug log (with > prompts). pScreen in #2 was optimized out so I got it from #3 instead. > > pDraw at #3 is probably a freed pointer. Thus its pScreen field is > undefined/arbitrary and in this case was 0x1 which made 'privates' in #0 > a pointer a bit higher (because implicitly, #2 will find 'privates' by > adding the field offset to the pScreen pointer, see the source code at > that part). Thus in the end it uses an invalid pointer of value 0x151 > for 'privates'. > > pDraw should not be freed until DRI2DestroyDrawable etc. has been called > with it. Considering it is only sometimes that the server crashes I > would guess there is a race condition. > > Of course, there is also the possibility that pScreen has been set to 1 > at some point. In other words, I'm not entirely sure if the pDraw > pointer is freed, as I know not how to check that. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org