[G45] (UXA) openarena crashes after 1-20 min of play

[Olaf Encke]

Binary package hint: openarena

[Problem]
openarena freezes after several minutes of singleplayer gameplay. It rarely happens right at the start but most often after half a map or one and a half maps. The screen becomes completely unresponsive and the sound loops in a subsecond loop but background processes keep working and openarena doesn't use excessive cpu. It happens in full screen and windowed mode. During play graphics are flawless.

[Discussion]
Switching to other tty's doesn't show any change on the screen but it is possible to ssh into the box and use top or kill processes. It just doesn't show any change on screen.
When starting openarena from a terminal window, it will only show bot chat but no error messages get displayed during crash.
"sudo reboot" initiates reboot with a system beep (but no screen change) and ssh gets disconnected after some hdd activity, but shutdown doesn't finish.
Alt+Print+[REISUB] works to reboot the machine. After Alt+Print+R the game texture colors become partly inverted and after Alt+Print+B the screen finally goes blank.

This crash has occured on this machine on several seperate installations since (myth/K/u)buntu 8.10 x86_64 and hasn't changed with any update to
(-> ubuntu 9.04
 -> ubuntu 9.04 + x-swat ppa
 -> ubuntu 9.04 + x-swat ppa + intel 2:2.7.99.1-1 from debian experimental reps)
(-> mythbuntu 9.04
 -> mythbuntu 9.10 alpha1
 -> mythbuntu 9.10 alpha1 + xorg-edgers ppa)
(-> Kubuntu 9.04).
It also shows on Sabayon 4.1 .

(most recent) System environment:
-- chipset: Intel G45
-- system architecture: 64-bit
-- xf86-video-intel: 2:2.7.99.1+git20090519.09beee37-0ubuntu0sarvatt
-- xserver: 2:1.6.1.901-0ubuntu0sarvatt
-- mesa: 7.6.0~git20090519.d0eccc41-0ubuntu0sarvatt
-- libdrm: 2.4.11+git20090519.f355ad89-0ubuntu0sarvatt
-- kernel: 2.6.30-5-generic #6-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 11 20:46:57 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
-- Linux distribution: mythbuntu 9.10 / XFCE
-- Machine or mobo model: Foxconn G45M-S (X4500 HD)
-- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400
-- RAM: ADATA 2x2GB
-- Display connector: VGA
-- Monitor: HP LP2475w

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 20 05:04:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/games/openarena
Package: openarena 0.8.1-4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-5.6-generic
SourcePackage: openarena
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-5-generic x86_64

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

Hi Olaf

Do you still see the bug, especially with karmic or karmic+xorg-edgers?
I had the openarena-benchmark from phoronix running last week. That ran just fine on comparable hardware and it takes about 10 to 20 minutes to complete, I guess. That was with current karmic development version + xorg-edgers iirc.

[Eemil Lagerspetz (eemil-lagerspetz)]

I have this issue on an eee pc 901, Lucid, and edgers drivers. openarena test suite of phoronix fails to complete even one run. With Ubuntu vanilla drivers, the issue does not occur but performance regresses 30% from Karmic with edgers drivers.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for openarena (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]