On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:57:52 +0300 Arthur A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... > Briefly, what happens is the 'X' randomly crashes without warning, and it is > irrecoverable. Any open work is lost. A reboot is required. There is an error > in > the xorg.log about rng expecting one number, getting another, then fatal > server > error. > > Here is the bug report I want to file, you comments are appreciated. > > Regards, > AA > ============================================================================= > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: xserver-xorg-video-intel causes X to crash irrecoverably and without > warning (fatal server error: lockup) > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.3.2-2 > Severity: important > > Seemingly at random, and infrequently, X will crash and I will often lose all > open work. After a number of attempts to automatically restart I will be > given a > message saying that X has crashed and cannot be restarted. Switching to a > different terminal killing all Xsessions and GDM and attempting to restart > them > does not work. A reboot is seemingly required. > > Adding the option "NoDRI" to xorg.conf appears to prevent this from > happening? > This is not a good option for me as suspend/resume does not work with this > option enabled. > > It occurs infrequently, perhaps once every 30 or 40 hours of use, and I have > been unable to find any pattern. I believe iceweasel has been open for all > crashes, though this has occured over an upgrade to version 3.0, and has also > persisted over recent updates to xorg and the intel driver. > > The xorg.log seems to contain a relevant and hopefully useful error at the > end > of the log. > > I set the severity to important because it currently causes a loss of data. > > Please advise if I can provide more information. Reportbug was not working > for > me and I have filed this manually. > > Below you will find my xorg.log, xorg.conf, kernel version, libc version. I > am > running Lenny. > > Regards, > AA > > # ============================ > # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old > # ============================ ... [This is where the reports related to the bug begin.] > Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds > pgetbl_ctl: 0x3ffc0001 getbl_err: 0x00000003 > ipeir: 0x00000000 iphdr: 0x7d000006 > LP ring tail: 0x0000e490 head: 0x0000e49c len: 0x0001f001 start 0x00000000 > eir: 0x0000 esr: 0x0010 emr: 0xffff > instdone: 0xfa41 instpm: 0x0000 > memmode: 0x0000010f instps: 0x800f04c4 > hwstam: 0xfffe ier: 0x0002 imr: 0x0000 iir: 0x0070 > Ring at virtual 0xa782f000 head 0xe49c tail 0xe490 count 32765 ... > Ring end > space: 4 wanted 32 > (II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel > (II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf8d41000 at 0xb7ef3000 > (II) intel(0): [drm] Closed DRM master. > > Fatal server error: > lockup ... I have reported a version of this to upstream (as per a request by one of the DDs in a similar bug log: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16262 See also: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465694 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432110 Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]