Pcbnew (and X) crash during zooming
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Linux Mint |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
X.Org X server |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xf86-video-intel |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm using Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) with Gnome 64-bit edition. This problem also occurs in an installation of Ubuntu 11.10 on the same machine. It appears that X is crashing intermittently when zooming in or out of a design in pcbnew. It seems to occur more often in complex designs. I can usually reproduce it within 30 seconds to 1 minute by rapidly zooming in and out of the design. When the crash occurs, I find myself back at the login screen. Under normal working conditions this crash occurs approx every 20 minutes to 1 hour. I reported this bug under Ubuntu as 892440 in November, but haven't heard anything yet about how to go about continuing to fix it. I have posted the Xorg log which shows a backtrace with a segmentation fault as an attachment. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do.
Thanks!
summary: |
- Pcbnew crashes during zooming + Pcbnew (and X) crash during zooming |
there has been a number of reports of buggy intel video drivers recently. Perhaps offer to send Intel some vitamins for their video developers, or try a different intel video driver version. Changing versions have fixed another bug reported under KiCad.
Either path above has you going to Intel.