[apport] beryl crashed with SIGSEGV in XPending()

[afarmer2005]

Binary package hint: beryl-core

Running Beryl give an unstable system.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 25 19:13:31 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/beryl
Package: beryl-core 0.2.1.dfsg+git20070318-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: beryl
ProcCwd: /home/afarmer
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: beryl-core
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 XPending () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Uname: Linux ltue0027 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:doPoll (timeout=<value optimized out>) at display.c:1332
eventLoop () at display.c:1896
main (argc=1, argv=) at main.c:370

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Marked as high importance because of high number of duplicates.

[Nick (lupine)]

It appears to be an issue with the 'text' plugin... although what, I'm not sure, as the code there looks fine. Could you check and confirm whether disabling the text plugin works around this issue?

[liddokun10 (liddokun10)]

Hi, which text plugin are you referring to? Not too sure.

>It appears to be an issue with the 'text' plugin... although what, I'm
>not sure, as the code there looks fine. Could you check and confirm
>whether disabling the text plugin works around this issue?
>
>--
>[apport] beryl crashed with SIGSEGV in XPending()
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96138
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[Aaron D. Campbell (aaroncampbell)]

Well, it seems that a few of my crashes were duplicates of this. I'd love to help if I can, but like liddokun10...I don't see a "text plugin" to disable. How would I do that (through beryl-settings, or even a config file).

[Aaron D. Campbell (aaroncampbell)]

I found what you mean. In beryl-settings, go to "Image Format" then uncheck text on the left. I did this, and I guess we'll wait and see if it crashes again. What benefit does this plugin offer? Cleaner looking text during effects?

[degouttes (bradbti-launchpad)]

Thanks, I think its working OK now.
I've done multiple boots now, Beryl hasn't crashed since
changing TEXT to disable.
       Thanks

Aaron D. Campbell wrote:
> I found what you mean. In beryl-settings, go to "Image Format" then
> uncheck text on the left. I did this, and I guess we'll wait and see if
> it crashes again. What benefit does this plugin offer? Cleaner looking
> text during effects?
>
>

[Harrison Conlin (harrisony)]

It seems to me that this is quite a serious problem to do with the text plugin as stated here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/beryl-core/+bug/96138/comments/5
there are over 50 duplicates!!!!! this issue seems to only apply to the ubuntu package from the official reps. and not a beryl issue it self

[Elephantman (elephantman)]

+1

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Beryl is replaced by Compiz Fusion, so has been removed from Gutsy.

  status invalid
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[Aaron D. Campbell (aaroncampbell)]

So, because this is being replaced in 3 months with another version...it's invalid? What about for the next few months?

[Pookito pookito (pookito)]

Aaron D. Campbell wrote:
> So, because this is being replaced in 3 months with another
> version...it's invalid? What about for the next few months?
>
>
Hi Aaron, thank you for writing me. If this is going to be replace in
around 3 months, does that mean that Beryl will finally be stable?

Thanks

[William Grant (wgrant)]

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 11:37 +0000, Joshua Duran wrote:
> Aaron D. Campbell wrote:
> > So, because this is being replaced in 3 months with another
> > version...it's invalid? What about for the next few months?
> >
> >
> Hi Aaron, thank you for writing me. If this is going to be replace in
> around 3 months, does that mean that Beryl will finally be stable?

Beryl has been discontinued upstream (it merged with Compiz in order to
create Compiz Fusion). The release he speaks of is Ubuntu 7.10, which
will include Compiz Fusion. The chance of any bugfixes to Beryl is
minimal.

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs) (shanen)]

How can I tell if this is the crash I'm seeing? Where should I look in the logs? All I'm actually seeing is a white screen of total death--but now it's up to twice per hour.

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs) (shanen)]

Sorry, just getting subscribed with this one.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/96138