Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

[Rachel Greenham]

Whole desktop went unresponsive after I had just launched Software Updater.

Switched to vc2 to log in and first, run top; saw apport taking 100%, but then it went down and things looked normal, went back to vc7, saw things had changed (software updater was open), but still no response to keyboard or mouse. Back and forth like that a couple of times. Tried lightdm restart but that hung up completely. Rebooted; apport came back after reboot and login to place this.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-6.14-generic 3.9.6
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 34.921246] tg3 0000:02:00.0 eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
 [ 34.921248] tg3 0000:02:00.0 eth0: EEE is disabled
 [ 34.921334] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
 [ 183.714038] nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is scheduled for removal
 [ 183.714209] sysctl: The scan_unevictable_pages sysctl/node-interface has been disabled for lack of a legitimate use case. If you have one, please send an email to <email address hidden>.
Date: Sat Jun 22 09:22:26 2013
DistUpgraded: 2013-05-28 11:27:22,946 ERROR SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
DistroCodename: saucy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: bcmwl, 6.30.223.30+bdcom, 3.9.0-6-generic, x86_64: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:00e6]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-28 (54 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64+mac (20130214)
MachineType: Apple Inc. Macmini5,1
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/X :1 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:1 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
ProcEnviron:

ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.9.0-6-generic root=UUID=21b17f28-8f7c-4811-84f2-f08fc0a8e5a3 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: xorg-server
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 OsAbort ()
 ?? ()
 FatalError ()
Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-28 (24 days ago)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 01/24/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MM51.88Z.0077.B10.1201241549
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: Macmini5,1
dmi.chassis.type: 16
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMM51.88Z.0077.B10.1201241549:bd01/24/2012:svnAppleInc.:pnMacmini5,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1:rvrMacmini5,1:cvnAppleInc.:ct16:cvrMac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1:
dmi.product.name: Macmini5,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.04.18.1~13.04-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.45-2ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.1.3-0ubuntu4
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.1.3-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2b2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.8-0ubuntu1
xserver.bootTime: Sat Jun 22 09:25:11 2013
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu13
xserver.video_driver: intel

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1188123, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.