Xorg crash after middle button paste in Chromium under kernel 4.4 LTS

[Andrei Borzenkov]

When pasting text in Chromium using middle button Xorg crashes. So far this happens only

- in Chromium (I can middle paste in other programs like terminal)
- using kernel 4.4 LTS (it does not happen using stock 3.16 kernel)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9.24~14.04.1~beta1-generic 4.4.3
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9-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 Mar 19 12:21:17 2016
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 (261 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20140620-04:25
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5450
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-9-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
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg crash
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 2.4.64-1~ubuntu14.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.6
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 Mar 19 12:12:47 2016
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

[Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar-s)]

OMG ... again finding easy reason to not do anything ...

Yes, I updated BIOS to the last available today (12.02.2017). This is

A14
12/26/2016

And the bug is still present on 16.04.2 with HWE kernel (4.8) and Xorg (1.18.4).

Of course you can now wait couple of months until new BIOS is released and waive off with "BIOS outdated" again ...

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-standard-support on April 25, 2019.
Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-standard-support on April 29, 2021.

Your comments in #2 have been noted and I agree that updating BIOS seldom fixes problems in Ubuntu.

Depending on replies to questions that should have been asked of you five years ago this bug report might have been moved to the 'chromium-browser' or 'linux' package and received further attention from the developers of the respective developers.

However, do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported while using a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

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