blender-bin crashed with SIGSEGV

[eyemeansit]

Binary package hint: blender

Kubuntu 7.10 clean install. First time time I tried to open Blender since the installation. You just begin to see the application (all screen turns Blender background grey) then "poof" it's gone, with no traces left behind, and nothing left running in KSysguard process table.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 6 19:49:31 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/blender-bin
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: blender 2.44-2ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: blender-bin -w
ProcCwd: /home/les
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: blender
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/radeon_dri.so
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Title: blender-bin crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux tosh 2.6.22-13-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 4 17:18:44 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

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[eyemeansit (eyemeansit)]

I forgot to mention...
I'm using a Toshiba Satellite A65-s126 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP video card. I had some screen drawing issues with Blender on this card in the past under Feisty, but had them ironed out nicely for quite some time. Since installing Gutsy I have also tried Blender 2.43 from the Feisty repos with the same crashing results.

[eyemeansit (eyemeansit)]

Still not working after todays Gutsy updates... I keep hoping! Just received my copy of "The Essential Blender" and I'm wanting to do something besides reading it! :)

[eyemeansit (eyemeansit)]

Important discovery! While this behavior continues when attempting to launch Blender from the menu or the panel button, double-clicking on a .blend file opens Blender perfectly! I'm a happy boy!

[eyemeansit (eyemeansit)]

Another important discovery... I still have crashes, and I spoke too soon about "opens Blender perfectly." I can sometimes open a file, but not always. And as soon as I attempt to create a new file, it crashes. In other words, I still can't use my new book.

[eyemeansit (eyemeansit)]

Still getting the crashes. I hate having to go to Windows to use Blender... aside from "the principle of the thing," Blender is quite slow there, too. More than once I've wished I had stayed with Feisty! Oh, well. Good things come to those who wait!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[eyemeansit (eyemeansit)]

Sorry, but I'm no longer using Kubuntu, using Mepis 8 now. Also, using a
later version of Blender. Thanks anyway.

Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the
> bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.
>
> ** Attachment removed: "CoreDump.gz"
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9849075/CoreDump.gz
>
> ** Changed in: blender (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
>

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

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!