firegl_sig_notifier crash on shutdown or reboot

[James Page]

Every time I reboot or shutdown I get a crash in firegl_sig_notifier; This looks very similar to bug 750437 but I don't get a full stack trace to capture (see attached screenshot). This started happening in the last 7 days (hard to be exact but it was working OK). I also noticed that I now only get a text based splash screen during boot - might be related?

Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10
Upgrade from Natty
Dell Studio 15 Laptop

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Adriano Macchietto (amacchietto)]

I am using a Lenovo X120E which uses the AMD Fusion chipset and I occasionally get the same crash on shutdown.

[James Page (james-page)]

OK - so its not everytime - it appears to be when I have run gpg-agent - which is as soon as I open a terminal - so pretty much all of the time.

The second stack trace shows this detail.

[Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre (nicolas-adenis-lamarre)]

I'm affected by this bug too.
With fglfx : sometimes, it get this kernel panic too.
With the radeon driver, alt+f1 makes the left mouse key broken. So for now, i choose the kernel panic problem.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series

[James Page (james-page)]

Might be related to bug 750437

[James Page (james-page)]

Still hitting this with 12.04

[Dana Goyette (danagoyette)]

Same here... crash on most shutdowns.

I'm attaching a full stacktrace, grabbed via amtterm.
Note that I do have an out-of-memory kill due to Dropbox earlier, but I'd imagine that's a red herring. That out-of-memory didn't kill Xorg.

fglrx issue is at the END of the log file... after that point, I hard-reset.

[Ola A (ola-j-andersson)]

I have this problem to. Sometimes when I shutdown my computer I get a crash, something with firegl_sig_notifier. I have to shut down the computer with long-press on power button. The crash log is not present in /var/kernel.log.1, only on the screen.

It is 100 % reproducible when I have had eclipse and adt (android dev tools) opened, but happens in randomly otherwise too.
My computer is a laptop: DMI: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K52Jr/K52Jr, BIOS K52Jr.206 01/15/2010
ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD 5470

[Ola A (ola-j-andersson)]

I believe I have a workaround for this issue. (And I thereby a clue to where the cause for the crash is)

- I Downloaded the latest driver from amd website "amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run"
- Opened Software center and uninstalled the firegl driver.
- Restart my laptop
- Run the amd-driver-installer

Now I cannot get the shut down crash anymore.
(I also tried to install the driver in Additional Drivers -> "post-release updates, but I could not install it. Don't know why, perhaps a restart would have helped)

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

High: Has a moderate impact on a large portion of Ubuntu users (estimated)
  (FireGL not uncommon, and it's in 12.04 as well)