jaunty: random crash Xorg

[Francesco Duraccio]

Hi folks,

often during a normal session, occurs a random crash of Xorg, and affter a while there is the login screen.
this is the error i have found in kernel.log

pr 25 11:53:17 odo-ds9laptop kernel: [ 4999.562828] Xorg[5494]: segfault at 3c0027d ip b65a4209 sp bff60df0 error 4 in nvidia_drv.so[b6556000+3b4000]

Ubuntu 9.04
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This appears to be an X.org bug, and I am refiling this bug to them. Please run the command 'apport-collect <bug#>' which will include all the info they need for troubleshooting. Thanks in advance.

[Francesco Duraccio (odo.)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Francesco Duraccio (odo.)]

sure! it's on my way.

[Francesco Duraccio (odo.)]

After about 7 days of testing i can say there is no more random crash! thx

[Vish (vish)]

Thanks for following up. This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.