skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

[Jim Cheetham]

Binary package hint: xorg

Starting skype from the command-line causes Xorg to immediately crash & exit on this machine. In more detail, it seems like any GUI IO on the skype application is actually what causes the crash, as it is sometimes possible for gnome-session to start the app at login time, and the status bar icon shows the successful connection attempts; however moving the mouse pointer over that icon (this should generate a popup notification from the app) causes a crash.

When starting from the command-line the new window is focused, which seems to be enough to trigger the crash.

This is not skype-specific, I noticed similar behaviour from Opera (but have not experimented with reproducing this yet).

apport didn't seem to record skype as a problem application, so I've attached a gdb session of Xorg.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
DRM.card0.9.pin_DIN.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card1.9.pin_DIN.2:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Mon Oct 11 10:55:46 2010
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox-ose, 3.2.8, 2.6.32-25-generic, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox-ose, 3.2.8, 2.6.35-22-generic, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
MachineType: MSI MS-7640
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=/dev/mapper/rootA-lv ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_NZ.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Xrandr:
 Error: command ['xrandr', '--verbose'] failed with exit code 1: Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
 RandR extension missing
dmi.bios.date: 05/18/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V1.6
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 890FXA-GD70 (MS-7640)
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV1.6:bd05/18/2010:svnMSI:pnMS-7640:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rn890FXA-GD70(MS-7640):rvr1.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: MS-7640
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic

[Kris Willis (w-launchpad-kriswillis-com)]

I am also experiencing what appears to be the same issue, however not only with Skype and Opera, but also with MusicBrainz Picard, VLC and VirtualBox (non-OSE).

If I launch VLC from the command line with cvlc, the video opens in a window with no sound, but launching standard vlc crashes, apparently when you move the mouse over the VLC GUI. Similarly, I can open VirtualBox, but as soon as I mouse over its GUI the system crashes.

Every time the system crashes, I get kicked back to the GDM login screen.

If there are any logs that would help out, let me know and I'll dig them up.