[feisty] xserver crashes running xzgv over ssh

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

using neomagic on a dell latitude csx laptop, I ssh into a nearby linux server with X forwarding. I start mutt, then select an image for viewing, which runs xzgv on the server. The first time I did this, the xserver crashed before xzgv even displayed the image (though the window had appeared). The second time I did it (after rebooting), the image was displayed and then when I closed xzgv again the xserver crashed.

I will enclose logs, config, etc.

Gavin

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

I'm now comparing /var/log/Xorg.log and /var/log/Xorg.log.old. The second is from the last crash and is attached. The files are moreorless identical apart from different time stamps and VT number and an extra two lines at the bottom of the crash file. I've attached the crash file

gavin@chris:~ $ diff /var/log/Xorg.0.log*
14c14
< (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Aug 14 19:37:35 2007
---
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Aug 14 19:35:02 2007
88c88
< (++) using VT number 9
---
> (++) using VT number 7
719a720,722
> (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
> (II) NEOMAGIC(0): Stretching disabled
> (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

The crash happens when you run xzgv locally too, no need to run it over ssh. I just opened the image from nautilus choosing xzgv as my alternate viewer application.

On this occasion, I got a backtrace in Xorg.log too. This is attached

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

In case it's important, here is the image

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

it works with xzgv opening other images, including the mediumubuntulogo.png on this launchpad page.

The xserver does restart most of the time, but it doesn't seem very stable with a reboot. If I try to switch to a text terminal, the console frequently locks up and acts generally strangely.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Can you reproduce this running Hardy alpha3? Livecd-session should be fine for testing.

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

I'm not sure when I'll next be near that laptop. I'll see what I can do.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!