X crashes during browsing internet

[tazthecat]

I was stumbling the internet, screen turned black, and the login screen appeared.

Ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-11-generic

kern.log:
gnome-appearanc[5167]: segfault at bf33851c ip b61e875f sp bf338520 error 6 in libQtGui.so.4.5.0[b5cf1000+9c6000]
Xorg[3897]: segfault at 1c ip b6507209 sp bf8c3a50 error 4 in nvidia_drv.so[b64b9000+3b4000]

More info needed? please ask. And tell me how to retrieve this info.

[lspci]
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller [10de:03ea] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a6c]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT [10de:0421] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:034f]

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

Hi tazthecat, can you please run the command:
apport-collect 368081

Ideally this command should be run straight after the crash happens because then there is still a record of the crash in the xorg.log file. In most cases it will also work fine to run it on the first login after the crash but the best thing is to login from another machine using ssh while the crashed machine is still at the GDM login prompt.

Anyway, even if you rebooted several times already please run the above command so we can see what hardware you have and sort the bug properly. Thanks.

[tazthecat (tazthecat)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

@tazthecat, please report this bug directly to nvidia as well. And when you do, please point them to all the log files collected above.

[Aaron Plattner (aplattner)]

Please try 180.51: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1985816
One of the release highlights was a fix for an X server crash visiting certain web pages.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Christian Gut (cycloon)]

Can confirm this bug too. Crashed Xorg 5 times while surfing on tim.it

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!