X server crash when pasting selection using middle button in Chromium

[Andrei Borzenkov]

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04

xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1

Select any text; use middle button to paste selection in Chromium (I observed it pasting in URL bar or in any form text input field, including previous attempt to report this bug :) ). Session crashes.

It does not happen, when either pasting into different application (like terminal) or wen use Copy - Paste instead of middle button.

I noticed it about a week ago, so it must be some recent change; I use selection paste often enough to notice something like this before.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-19.23~14.04.1-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-19-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
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
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Dec 12 11:09:22 2015
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is a distribution channel descriptor
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-trusty-amd64-20140620-0
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [8086:1616] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:062b]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-02 (162 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20140620-04:25
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5450
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-19-generic root=UUID=d06b07a3-04bf-46e1-8cae-5f2592c69192 ro quiet splash pcie_aspm=force radeon.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0 video.use_native_backlight=1 video.use_native_backlight=1 crashkernel=384M-:128M vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/19/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 06J17N
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd05/19/2015:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5450:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn06J17N:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5450
dmi.product.version: 01
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.60-2~ubuntu14.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.5
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.5
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.6
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Sat Dec 12 11:08:11 2015
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 1133
 vendor LGD
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xorg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar-s)]

Still valid in Ubuntu 16.04.2 with HWE kernels and Xorg. It is beyond my understanding why you would need BIOS version for this, but if you insist ...

A14
12/26/2016

And no, there is of course no improvement after updating BIOS.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Andrei Borzenkov, to see if this is already resolved in Ubuntu, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?

[Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar-s)]

It does not look like live image includes Chromium (at least, I do not see it in Dash search results), so unfortunately I cannot test it - the problem so far was observed only when pasting in Chromium.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Andrei Borzenkov, one may install chromium in the live environment if one has the universe repository enabled via https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories.

[Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar-s)]

I cannot reproduce it with daily live after installing Chromium.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Andrei Borzenkov, given this is addressed in the latest release of Ubuntu, 16.04 would receive the relevant X fix(es) as a part of the 16.04 enablement stack noted in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack.

[Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar-s)]

This is still present in 16.04.2 with X 1.19.3.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end of standard support in April 2021:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

If you would like to continue with free support then please update to a
newer Ubuntu version and tell us if the problem still occurs.

If you would like to continue with Ubuntu 16.04 then there is a paid
support option detailed at https://www.ubuntu.com/esm