dictator crashes

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:42:56PM +0200, Matthias Felsche wrote:
> I experienced the same on current shr:
> 
> root at om-gta02 ~ # cat /etc/shr-version 
> SHR -20101002
> Built from branch: org.openembedded.dev
> Revision: 5788b22be688b7c2dd2ee9aca853aaff81b75d22
> 
> Something seems to go wrong while the window and its widgets is being
> displayed.
> It's Xorg that receives an Segfault:
> Here's the output from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> 
> [2108227.079] 
> Backtrace:
> [2108227.080] Segmentation fault at address 0x4e1742
> [2108227.080] 
> Fatal server error:
> [2108227.080] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
> [2108227.081] 
> [2108227.082] 
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
> at http://wiki.x.org
> for help. 
> [2108227.082] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
> for additional information.
> [2108227.082] 
> [2108227.085] (II) Power Button: Close
> [2108227.086] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> [2108227.087] (II) AUX Button: Close
> [2108227.088] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> [2108227.089] (II) Touchscreen: Close
> [2108227.090] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> [2108227.091] (II) UnloadModule: "kbd"
> [2108227.093] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
> 
> 
> Nothing more.
> I guess it has something to do with pygtk and it's displaying of images
> or widgets. Displaying the dictator window without making the widgets
> (buttons...) visible works. I have do find out what exactly causes X to
> crash. Seems strange.
> 
> Thanks for your report.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea about what changed during shr-updgrades and
> could have possibly caused the error?

newer xserver or libx11? hard to guess without stacktrace..
what about installing -dbg packages and running Xorg in gdb?

I'm building newer xserver/libdrm/mesa but won't push it to feed today,
someone can try it from my feed if interested.

Regards,

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com