[Bug 140554] Re: X crashes on RV370 with firefox + gnash visiting certain urls (no desktop effects)

[Bryce Harrington]

Todd, so it sounds like the issue for you was with gnash triggering a
fatal X error on those pages.  Would you mind testing against Hardy,
which has a newer firefox (and maybe gnash too)?


** Summary changed:

- X crashes gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error  - Restarting :0
+ X crashes on RV370 with firefox + gnash visiting certain urls (no desktop effects)

** Description changed:

  twice today X crashed and restarted gdm.
  
  In the /var/log/syslog file i get:
  gdm[3192]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
  
  
  Some discussion on similar same problem is here:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=96068
  
  I am running 7.04 amd64.
  
  To me it seems like either an out of memory thing, firefox might be a
  possible cause, but it is still hard to say.
  
  There are a bunch of somewhat similar, but I think different bugs. For example:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/138708
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/136784
  
  The difference is that these other one deal with 3D stuff and commonly
  the problem is with nvidia or the nv driver.
  
  I am not using any effects (such as compiz etc. on this box).
  
  relevant lspci:
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
  01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
  
  I have ran this system without an X crash for a long time.
  
  I will continue to post other error logs etc. as I can think of things
  that might be helpful to fix this.
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+ Also, it is not reproducible reliably. For example twice in a row when clicking on this link: http://krazydad.com/blog/ from this link: http://battellemedia.com/archives/003952.php in the comments section, i got the crash. But the third time i clicked on the link (yeah, you would think i would have learned) it didn't crash. So it is not completely reproducible.
+ 
+ For me, I have uninstalled gnash. And since then I haven't seen a crash.

** Also affects: gnash (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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X crashes on RV370 with firefox + gnash visiting certain urls (no desktop effects)
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