Xorg crash
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
I have been getting crashes for some time, randomly, usually with Firefox. No crash report or seldom. Symptoms: the screen goes black with thick vertical lines in the upper third, flashing. No response from keyboard (can't get to a terminal). Only option is to reboot. So I booted the recovery option, went a terminal as root, then su'ed to the user, ran startx. After a while X crashed, but now it comes back to the terminal, and I get some info. Once it has crashed this way, startx crashes immediately every time it's run.
The information from the terminal is:
. . .
(==) Using config directory "usr/lib/
../../intel/
Fatal server error
Failed to submit batchbuffer: Input/output error
. . .
ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
giving up
xinit: No such file or directory (error 2): Unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (error 3): Server error
This happens more often in Firefox, sometimes in Chrome, once in Bluefish, never in Freecell!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
[ 19.816181] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 19.816186] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
[ 19.816290] ADDRCONF(
[ 29.840042] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Sun Apr 18 17:58:14 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100325)
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Dimension 2400
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
dmi.bios.date: 12/02/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: 0F5949
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corp.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 15
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComp
dmi.product.name: Dimension 2400
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: crash |
Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | xorg-server (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) |
tags: |
added: hw-specific removed: crash |
tags: | added: crash |
Exact same problem here - black screen crash with flashing horizontal lines (although I haven't noticed that it is related to Firefox use). I'm also using an older Dell computer, in my case an Optiplex GX260 with integrated Intel graphics.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/ GL[Brookdale- G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01) GL[Brookdale- G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/