Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in OsAbort() - Cannot mirror screen in good resolution

[Till Kamppeter]

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Twist with Core i7 processor and on-chip HD4000 GPU. It has an internal 1366x768 (16:9) display and I have connected and external 1920x1080 (16:9) monitor via HDMI. By default the display gets mirrored with only 1024x768 (4:3) because this is the highest common resolution of the two reported by xrandr. I can switch to a large desktop formed by the two screens with the System Settings (section "Display") with each screen using its native resolution.

To get a better mirroring I tried to mirror my screen via the command

xrandr --output LVDS 1--auto --output HDMI1 --auto --same-as LVDS1

taken from

https://kis.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Pages/ExternalDisplaysLinux.aspx

After that both screens showed garbage and do not react to mouse clicks and key presses any more. Unplugging the external screen left the internal with the garbage and I had to SSH in from another Ubuntu machine and run

sudo restart lightdm

to recover the display of the laptop.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu5
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-030900rc5-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Apr 10 11:00:56 2013
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: raring
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
ExecutableTimestamp: 1365458279
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2205]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-28 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130328)
MachineType: LENOVO 334729G
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/X :0 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
ProcCwd: /etc/X11
ProcEnviron:

ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.9.0-030900rc5-generic root=UUID=7229d092-c8f9-4b8a-bae8-529fc6a0340f ro elevator=deadline quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: xorg-server
StacktraceTop:
 OsAbort ()
 ?? ()
 FatalError ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main (main=0x7fa2c48ec1b0, argc=9, ubp_av=0x7fff708c7b88, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fff708c7b78) at libc-start.c:260
Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in OsAbort()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 02/05/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: GDET92WW (1.52 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 334729G
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Win8 Pro DPK TPG
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrGDET92WW(1.52):bd02/05/2013:svnLENOVO:pn334729G:pvrThinkPadTwist:rvnLENOVO:rn334729G:rvrWin8ProDPKTPG:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 334729G
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad Twist
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.04.05-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.43-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0.3-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu5
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2b2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.5-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.7-0ubuntu1
xserver.bootTime: Wed Apr 10 11:04:01 2013
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu5
xserver.video_driver: intel

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

"xrandr --prop" output with both screens connected in large-desktop-over-both-screens mode (no mirroring):

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3286 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 277mm x 156mm
 EDID:
  00ffffffffffff0030e47a0300000000
  00160103801c10780adce5975a559227
  1d505400000001010101010101010101
  010101010101241d56d4500016303020
  2500159c1000001b0000000000000000
  00000000000000000000000000fe004c
  4720446973706c61790a2020000000fe
  004c503132355748322d534c54310025
 BACKLIGHT: 1054 (0x0000041e) range: (0,1054)
 Backlight: 1054 (0x0000041e) range: (0,1054)
 scaling mode: Full aspect
  supported: None Full Center Full aspect
   1366x768 59.8*+
   1360x768 59.8 60.0
   1024x768 60.0
   800x600 60.3 56.2
   640x480 59.9
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 connected 1920x1080+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm
 EDID:
  00ffffffffffff0015c3692001010101
  2d14010380331d78eaee95a3544c9926
  0f5054a1080081808140b30081c00101
  010101010101023a801871382d40582c
  4500fe1f1100001e000000ff00353732
  32393131300a20202020000000fc0045
  5632333333570a2020202020000000fd
  003b3d1f440f000a2020202020200153
  02031b41468102031112042309070783
  01000067030c001300881e8c0ad08a20
  e02d10103e96000403000000188c0ad0
  8a20e02d10103e96001009000000188c
  0ad090204031200c4055000403000000
  188c0ad090204031200c405500100900
  000018011d007251d01e206e28550010
  090000001e000000000000000000005c
 Broadcast RGB: Automatic
  supported: Automatic Full Limited 16:2
 audio: auto
  supported: force-dvi off auto on
   1920x1080 60.0*+
   1680x1050 59.9
   1280x1024 60.0
   1280x960 60.0
   1280x720 60.0
   1024x768 60.0
   800x600 60.3
   720x576 50.0
   720x480 59.9
   640x480 60.0 59.9
   720x400 70.1
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
 Broadcast RGB: Automatic
  supported: Automatic Full Limited 16:2
 audio: auto
  supported: force-dvi off auto on
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
 Broadcast RGB: Automatic
  supported: Automatic Full Limited 16:2
 audio: auto
  supported: force-dvi off auto on
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
 Broadcast RGB: Automatic
  supported: Automatic Full Limited 16:2
 audio: auto
  supported: force-dvi off auto on

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Command has a typo, here is the correct one:

xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output HDMI1 --auto --same-as LVDS1

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Problem occurs only with the mainline kernel which I had installed due to bug 1162732 (computer does not wake up from suspend).

With Raring's current standard kernel I can get into the desired mirror mode via (also awkward):

xrandr --addmode HDMI1 1366x768
xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1366x768
xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1366x768 --same-as LVDS1

Output of "uname -a" with the official kernel:

Linux till-twist 3.8.0-17-generic #27-Ubuntu SMP Sun Apr 7 19:39:35 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This change was made by a bot.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

The problem shown in comment #4 is treated in bug 1167301.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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