Yeah I figured it out. Non rootless (rooted!) XMir wants to decide the display power state (DPMS). Unity8/QtMir never had to deal with clients doing that before.
Longer term Unity8 should filter such requests as it's quite rude for an app to be able to turn off your display on you, but I've a branch up to at least not crash. I've more work to do on this though, as waking up the display isn't working with that branch. To be continued ** Branch linked: lp:~gerboland/qtmir/fix-glcontext-loss-on-reconfigure ** Changed in: qtmir (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: qtmir (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: qtmir (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gerry Boland (gerboland) ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1521403 Title: Unity8 crashes with SIGSEGV in Screen::makeCurrent (./src/platforms/mirserver/screen.cpp:406) Status in qtmir package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding unity8. This problem was most recently seen with version 8.11+15.04.20151130.1-0ubuntu1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/6cee045a96ab5c9a03847aeb290f4860eea1034d contains more details. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtmir/+bug/1521403/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp