TexMaker appears to restart computer when trying to open or start new document

[Glenton Jelbert]

Binary package hint: texmaker

I installed TexMaker on an amd64 Ubuntu 10.10 release.

The GUI opens up okay.

When I press "New" the computer appears to restart. It's pretty quick, and comes back to the login page. On logging in, it's like it's just restarted (so TexMaker is not open anymore).

When I press "Open", it goes to the open dialogue. I select a .tex file and the same thing happens.

texmaker and texlive were both installed from synaptic package manager.

I can use the terminal to do "pdflatex file.tex", and it works fine. Also Kile and Winefish both are able to perform the pdflatex.

I've looked for this bug, but unsuccessfully!

The installation is very new. I've also installed yWriter5, which involves mono (http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5_Linux.html).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: texmaker (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 19 08:45:50 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_SG.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: texmaker

[xir (simonbennie)]

I am suffering from this bug with similar configurations to OP. Fglrx on 64 bit maveric. I would like to add that this is an Xserver crash not a reboot.

here is the critical part of the dmesg:

[10788.670606] [fglrx] IRQ 48 Disabled
[10789.012405] wlan0: deauthenticating from f0:7d:68:18:df:a0 by local choice (reason=3)
[10789.015005] cfg80211: All devices are disconnected, going to restore regulatory settings
[10789.015011] cfg80211: Restoring regulatory settings
[10789.015015] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[10789.051804] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[10789.051808] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[10789.051813] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[10789.051817] (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[10789.051821] (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[10789.051825] (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[10789.051828] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[10789.630232] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[10789.631032] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 4859
[10789.631238] [fglrx] IRQ 48 Enabled
[10790.084152] [fglrx] Gart USWC size:1188 M.
[10790.084157] [fglrx] Gart cacheable size:471 M.
[10790.084164] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, size:1000000
[10790.084167] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:fc47000, size:3b9000
[10790.084171] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:1fffb000, size:5000

if i get time i'll test with the open source drivers at some point and see if the issue persists.

[xir (simonbennie)]

I've managed to reproduce this in other programs, such a lyx it is to do with resizing boxes inside the program and is likely an xserver error.

No valid against texmaker.

[Amun Hateb (amunhateb)]

Absolutely the same bug. I catch it every time i try to create new tex doc or open one. With open drivers this bug do not appear, so i assume this is fglrx trouble. But still, i need 3d acceleration. It is hard to choose between option to work or use my video card with it full potential. OS Ubuntu 10.10, i can confirm that with 10.04 this bug do not appear.