Blender crashes with "Segmentation fault"

[Atanas Atanasov]

I try to add a simple mesh and blender crashes e.g. Add -> Mesh -> Plane. Unfortunately Apport does not catch the crash either so I cannot submit complete information. I am running Hardy on Dell Inspiron 1721 laptop with ATI Radeon X1200 and fglrx 8.47.3. This is very minimal, how can I extract more details about the crash.

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

I just got some information from dmesg:

[75455.221531] blender-bin[29063] general protection rip:7f69f57e844b rsp:7fff12486ef8 error:0
[75912.127096] blender-bin[29192] general protection rip:7fbd13d0444b rsp:7fff309a3418 error:0
[75919.976045] blender-bin[29588] general protection rip:7f789f13244b rsp:7fffbbd25228 error:0
[76331.757625] blender-bin[29940] general protection rip:7ff14b45c44b rsp:7fff680faae8 error:0
[76648.722823] blender-bin[30265] general protection rip:7f267f58f44b rsp:7fff9c17f698 error:0
[76737.808445] blender-bin[30365] general protection rip:7f2303de244b rsp:7fff209d2ef8 error:0
[77150.760353] blender-bin[30830] general protection rip:7f711146344b rsp:7fff2e053578 error:0
[77172.881364] blender-bin[30866] general protection rip:7fc86493c44b rsp:7fff8152ea48 error:0

Each crash generates a single line.

[joux (joux)]

I can confirm this behaviour on an AMD64 nx6325 Notebook on Ubuntu 8.04, with the same ATI Radeon Xpress 1200, running xorg-driver-fglrx 1:7.1.0-8-3+2.6.24.13-19.45 from the repos. Blender 2.45 (repos), 2.46 and 2.47RC1 all crash when I try to add a mesh to the scene.

/var/log/messages:
Aug 12 00:52:18 HPnotebook kernel: [15470.233706] blender-bin[11392] general protection rip:7f5c75d1944b rsp:7fff8ea11b08 error:0

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

I upgraded to Intrepid and blender doesn't crash anymore. I also had to change my video driver to radeonhd (since fglrx is broken). Blender is version 2.46 as before, so it must be incompatibility of blender with the proprietary driver.

[joux (joux)]

I tested switching back to the "radeon" drivers. Both Blender 2.45 and 2.46 worked fine this way. So it is a problem with the "fglrx" proprietary drivers. On 7.10 they used to work together.

213197 is probably a duplicate of this.

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

I can confirm the bug doesn't occur with fglrx version 8.54.3. I assumed the driver updates have fixed the issue.