[nouveau] Xorg crashed with SIGABRT

[Colin Keenan]

I don't know further details about the issue. This problem was detected by Ubuntu.

However, I've been having tons of problems with graphics, especially Unity Dash, for a couple of months now. Bringing up Unity Dash in 12.04 would scramble all the icons in Unity Panel and the dash as well. Playing videos often causes crashes after seeming to struggle for a while to play the video.

I decided to update to Ubuntu 12.10 alpha3 for better graphics, but Unity Dash is unusable - flashing all the time and still scrambling all the icons. I used Ubuntu Tweak to set the Dash to the smaller desktop size (I'm actually using a desktop computer but viewing it on my widescreen TV). Using the smaller Dash stops the flickering most of the time, and the newer graphics don't seem to have anymore trouble playing videos, but there are still random crashes.

This particular "crash" being reported here didn't appear to cause any issues though. The crashes I'm talking about aren't reportable because the computer freezes, not even responding to ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-backspace, so that I have to use hardware to reboot.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.99.905-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Aug 24 00:07:02 2012
DistUpgraded: 2012-08-23 14:30:03,347 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] [10de:03d0] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:a127]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0451:2046 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB2046 Hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 005: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth
MachineType: Unknow Unknow
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/X :0 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none
ProcEnviron:

ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-11-generic root=UUID=e92f6f09-fa78-4288-b695-6f763ae4e38d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: xorg-server
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-23 (0 days ago)
UserGroups:

XorgLogOld:

dmi.bios.date: 12/10/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: NF-MCP61
dmi.board.vendor: nVIDIA
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: nVIDIA
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd12/10/2009:svnUnknow:pnUnknow:pvrUnknow:rvnnVIDIA:rnNF-MCP61:rvr:cvnnVIDIA:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Unknow
dmi.product.version: Unknow
dmi.sys.vendor: Unknow
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.38-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.4-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.4-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.99.905-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120713.6ef1ad6a-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.1-4~ubuntu1

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __memcpy_ia32 () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/../memcpy.S:75
 ?? ()

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for your report!

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the
developers failed (it does not generate a useful symbolic stack trace). This
might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system
at the time of the report:

outdated debug symbol package for initscripts: package version 2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu13 dbgsym version 2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11.1
outdated debug symbol package for module-init-tools: package version 3.16-1ubuntu3 dbgsym version 3.16-1ubuntu2

Please upgrade your system to the latest package versions. If you still
encounter the crash, please file a new report.

Thank you for your understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience!

[Colin Keenan (colinkeenan)]

I don't understand how to upgrade to anything newer than what I have. This is the alpha3 version of Ubuntu 12.10, and I've also added the Precise version of the getdeb repositories in order to get some more up to date versions of some software I use. According to aptitude, the only package not up to the latest is a version of gnucash that I can't install because it requires libaqbanking which is for some reason not in the repositories anymore.

What can I do to get even more up-to-date packages?

(note that ever since installing Ubuntu 12.10, the following packages cannot be configured:

update-notifier-common
 flashplugin-installer
 update-notifier
 ubuntu-desktop

But, everything except flashplugin seems to work and I can still watch flash video in Google Chrome.)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

looks related to the nouveau gallium driver.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[penalvch (penalvch)]

As per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1041261/comments/6 .