[nvidia amd64] ripples crashed with SIGSEGV in gettimeofday()

[Noel J. Bergman]

Binary package hint: xscreensaver

It crashed, and apport wanted to report it, so here we are.

I also see Bug #184823 which has the same screensaver crashing with a SIGSEGV in malloc() ... I'm wondering if these are related. As with that defect, my system is also running an nVidia on x86_64.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 4 20:42:12 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/ripples
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xscreensaver-data 5.04-2ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: ripples -root
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver:/usr/lib/xscreensaver:/usr/lib/xscreensaver
 LANG=C
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: xscreensaver
StacktraceTop:
 gettimeofday () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: ripples crashed with SIGSEGV in gettimeofday()
Uname: Linux noel-hardy 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:29:14 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:gettimeofday () from /lib/libc.so.6
main (argc=1, argv=<value optimized out>)
__libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
_start ()

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

confirming on Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 also

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

to reproduce:
i just used the lock screen applet of gnome panel.
when i logged back in, there was this ripples crash report waiting for me

[Bill Turner, wb4alm (wb4alm)]

Screen saver started running, wiggled mouse, error message was waiting for me. Also running amd64 and ubuntu 8.04.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Have you seen this exact crash in Ubuntu 8.10?

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Tormod, I cannot reproduce it with Jaunty. Will check Intrepid soon.

[tatojo (manuel-mlmateos)]

I have 8.10 now, could you tell me what test to perform in order to
check the bug?
Thanks
Manuel

Tormod Volden wrote:
> Have you seen this exact crash in Ubuntu 8.10?
>
> ** Changed in: xscreensaver (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
>

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

Since intrepid is now stable, this kind of crash might be "hidden" and
the crash report program (apport) might not show up.
You have to set your screensaver as ripples, wait for 10-15 seconds
and check out the output of this command: dmesg | tail

I think this is fixed in 8.10 though

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Thanks. Just reopen if it happens again in Jaunty.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

I have tested this against fully updated installations of Ubuntu 8.04.1 (plus NVIDIA 177.82 installed by hand), 8.10 and 9.04. I can no longer reproduce this problem with any of the above, and concur with the FIX RELEASED status.

[Matthew R. Tober (mr-matthew-tober)]

Linux T5246 3.2.0-17-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 17 21:35:49 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

Still happening. Happened with apple2 screensaver this time.