Natty classic compiz[1257]: segfault at 4 ip 03d8b30b sp bf959690 error 4 in r300_dri.so[3d73000+2fa000]

[jerrylamos]

Binary package hint: compiz

Natty Alpha 1 classic. Using Firefox window. Also had terminal up. Suddenly noticed the gnome-panel had disappeared. Only thing that would work was Ctrl-Alt-F1 so looked at kern.log with nano. The lines at the time of the incident were:

Jan 10 21:29:03 localhost kernel: [ 4624.052302] show_signal_msg: 6 callbacks suppressed
Jan 10 21:29:03 localhost kernel: [ 4624.052310] compiz[1257]: segfault at 4 ip 03d8b30b sp bf959690 error 4 in r300_dri.so[3d73000+2fa000]

This is Compaq 3.3 ghz Celeron ati radeon xpress 200.

The gnome-panel has "disappeared" several times this evening requiring sudo service gdm stop, sudo service gdm start from Ctrl-Alt-F1 command line.

I don't know if it will occur with Unity so I'll try that next.

Jerry

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop3-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins'
Date: Mon Jan 10 21:35:13 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101218)
MachineType: Compaq-Presario RR790AA-ABA SR2150NX
PackageArchitecture: all
PciDisplay: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] [1002:5a61] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 ro
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu6
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9+repack-1ubuntu3
 libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.13.901-2ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2-1ubuntu2
SourcePackage: compiz
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 11/30/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 5.04
dmi.board.name: Alhena5
dmi.board.vendor: ECS
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr5.04:bd11/30/2006:svnCompaq-Presario:pnRR790AA-ABASR2150NX:pvr:rvnECS:rnAlhena5:rvr1.0:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: RR790AA-ABA SR2150NX
dmi.sys.vendor: Compaq-Presario
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.37-12-generic

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Logged out of classic logged into Unity and got the same error again in kern.log:

Jan 10 21:49:48 localhost kernel: [ 5869.095588] compiz[4476]: segfault at 4 ip 054cc30b sp bf924860 error 4 in r300_dri.so[54b4000+2fa000]

so it doesn't appear to be gnome-panel vs. Unity related.

Jerry

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#How%20to%20enable%20apport to enable apport so the next time this happens it will offer to submit a crash report. That report will give us the information needed to solve this issue. As apport will create a new bug report I've closed this one.

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Hooray! Today's login updates included: "Ubuntu classic, no effects"

I presume that means "no Compiz?" I used to turn off effects in the System > Preferences : Appearance but I don't see that window any more.

I was running about 5 to 15 minutes per Natty failure with either classic or Unity as in this bug. Updated, tried the "no effects" login option, now Natty classic has run for a couple hours no failure!

I didn't see an option for "Unity no effects"....

Thanks much, Jerry

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Indeed, because it's not possible to run Unity without effects. That's the point of the classic mode. :)