Comment 19 for bug 153188

I'm having this exact same issue. When Xorg starts with the intel driver, it randomly crashes. If I keep rebooting, it eventually comes up without crashing, and works fine from then on.

There's nothing in any logs about the crash. The system sometimes completely freezes, sometimes I can get to a terminal. I should note though that with the intel driver, *displaying* terminals has never worked for me, it just gives a blank screen. However, I can still do things in those terminals, I just don't get any video.

I tried running Xorg in gdb with the loglevel set to 127 (I'm not sure what the highest value is), and with modeline debugging on and signal trapping off. Sometimes it would get to the point where it'd print the backtrace, and other times the log of gdb's output would just end abruptly.

I'll attach the log with the backtrace. Unfortunately it seems like it's crashing in random functions, so I think it could be an array bounds/memory corruption issue in the driver. I also have a core dump, but I'm not sure how to populate it with debug symbols, so I don't know how useful it would be. I can attach the core dump if you'd like.

When I get time I plan on running the plugin with Valgrind. I'll try those git builds when I get a chance as well.