amsn crashes X when you try to change display picture with compiz enabled

[Assid]

Binary package hint: amsn

amsn seems to crash xorg when you try and change the display picture while compiz is enabled. I disabled the visual effects and it works fine. I put it on and try to change it crashes. So definitely something wrong here.

[DJ_DEF (dj-def)]

Yes, I too have compiz + ubuntu gutsy + nvidia and with all amsn versions that I tried (0.97 and many svn) the X server crashes when I try to change my personal picture.

[DJ_DEF (dj-def)]

I just discovered that I have this problem only with 169.12 nvidia driver. With the 100.14.19 nvidia driver (that of ubuntu gutsy repositories) there is no problem. :)

[Marco Grassi (marco-gra)]

i have ubuntu 8.04 development branch and with compiz effect and nvidia driver also amsn crash.... the nvidia driver are the default driver in repositories.

[XmIsTeR (xmisterhu)]

Same thing. It was crashing in gutsy, and it's crashing in hardy too.

[DJ_DEF (dj-def)]

you have to install an older nvidia driver, the new one causes this problem... with 100.14.19 for me it's all right!

[XmIsTeR (xmisterhu)]

That's not a real solution :)
It's better for me to turn off compiz while changing the picture, than installing an older driver.

[DJ_DEF (dj-def)]

you're right :) it's not a real solution but it shows that the problem could be a driver problem and not a software problem

[Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst)]

Same driver, same problem here on hardy.

[Niclas Lockner (niclasl)]

Same here.
aMSN 0,97+final-0ubuntu4
nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.12-15.33
Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

Syslog:
gdm[13650]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Ödesdigert X-fel - Startar om :0

"Ödesdigert X-fel - Startar om" = "Fatal X-error - Restaring"

[gabr10 (gabriobarbieri)]

Same thing here...
8.04 Beta, aMSN 0.97 final, latest nvidia driver from the repos.. and compiz.

Anybody with a workaround?

[Robynhub (robynhub)]

Same thing here with latest nvidia and kernel.

PLEASE HELP!!!

[DJ_DEF (dj-def)]

I upgraded to hardy from gutsy and with 169.12 driver and amsn_dev (18-04-2008) there is no crash :)

[DJ_DEF (dj-def)]

Today I started ubuntu and the nvidia driver didn't work anymore (I don't know for what reason), I reinstalled the driver and now amsn crashes X again.

[Joshua Dunamis (dunamis)]

I installed kubuntu 8.04 hardy (stable) and X crashes when I try to change my image, and this appens without compiz activated

[Pconfig (thomas9999)]

Same problem here. Ubuntu 8.04 crashes when trying to change the image. Compiz enabled and nvidia graphics card.

[Anthony Hook (anthonyhook)]

I'm having the same problem. I am able to change if use Gnome/OpenBOX but not with Compiz. Interesting. nVidia as well.

[Roberto (bob-dj)]

SAme problem. amsn in hardy with nvidia crash.

[Glauco (glauco-hass)]

Exactly the same thing. No fix yet?

[llove (sir-llove)]

I've found a solution to this problem in a forum, go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894&package_id=10452 and download your version of tk, in my case tk8.5, untar it and look for a file named tkfbox.tcl , then I replaced the one in /usr/share/tcltk/tk8.5 (or whatever version you people have) with the one I downloaded, restart my computer (although I think it's not necessary) and solved this problem. the forum is http://dreamlinuxforums.org/index.php?topic=170.0.
best regards.
just in case you ask, I use hardy 32 bits.

ps: sorry for the bad english

[DJ_DEF (dj-def)]

I installed nvidia 173.14.05 driver and the problem is nomore

[Gionn (giovanni.toraldo)]

Possibile FIX here:
http://dreamlinuxforums.org/index.php?topic=170.0

It appears to be a bug in the TK library.

[Kevin (kevin64-deactivatedaccount)]

The problem is that since the a5 stable version until there is at least one alpha and three betas that there are changes in that file (tkfbox.tcl)

Some of these changes are fixes for we can not simply replace a file on the other...

Can you specify which version (closer to the present) tk no-show this bug?

[Sam Mitchell Finnigan (ectheliongenesis)]

Yup, having the same problem. Graphics are NVidia 8400 GS (driver is 169.12), also using Compiz and aMSN. On 8.04 Hardy 32bit.

X Window System crashes when changing display picture in aMSN.

Tried llove's fix (& Scorp, same thing, cheers) - replacing the tkfbox.tcl file (in the .tar.gz, under Library)- but can't work out how to get read/write permissions for the \tk directory. :( Guess I'll Google it in a sec...

Hmm... not as easy as that, it would seem. Could anyone here post how to replace the file when the directory's permissions are root only? Je suis un n00b :D

[mmalmeida (mmalmeida)]

I can confirm this annoying bug on:

Ubuntu Hardy
Nvidia driver 169.12
Compiz
amsn 0.98b svn (July 25th)

[Sam Mitchell Finnigan (ectheliongenesis)]

I've managed to fix it by using NVidia driver version 173.14.09.

Possibly the drivers are to blame?

[beatbm (beatbm)]

same problem here
have have nvidia 7900 gs compiz ubuntu 8.04 64bit
 but when i log in with failsafe gnome there is no problem

[DJ_DEF (dj-def)]

With the 17X.xx versions of the Nvidia driver this problem disappear.
However I discovered that this configuration is a possible solution if you don't want to update:

1) Put this in xorg.conf

Option "PixmapCacheSize" "1000000"
Option "AllowSHMPixmaps" "0"

2) Run this command after that X started: nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 (you will need nvidia-settings to run it)

[Glauco (glauco-hass)]

This bug appears to be fixed in Intrepid. Upgraded from Hardy, nVidia 6600 gfx and 177 drivers from official repos.

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

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