On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 02:32 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Package: xorg > Version: 1:7.2-5 > Severity: important > > When playing back video using totem (either totem-xine or totem-gstreamer > from debian-multimedia.org), xorg will unpredictably restart. The crashes > seem to be most frequent when totem is playing a playlist (not a single > file), and to happen during the transition from one file to another, or > whenever I task-switch either away from or to the totem window using the > keyboard (alt-tab). > > I tried VLC as an alternative. Playing video back with VLC, xorg will also > sometimes crash on transitions as above, and crashes 100% of the time if I > change the hotkeys in the VLC preferences and click "Save". > > In order to test for hardware problems, I booted my tower using a Knoppix > CD. Knoppix doesn't include totem or VLC, so I played several videos with > Kaffeine. There were no problems whatsoever. > > I then booted back into Debian Lenny, installed Kaffeine, and tried to play > the same video files. Before the Kaffeine window even opened, xorg crashed > again. > > Andrew Sackville-West reports that he can reliably crash X by dragging an > active mplayer window from one monitor to another. Andrew's and my > discussion on debian-user can be read starting here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00043.html > > That thread includes Backtrace reports from the xorg crashes. > > Relevant versions on my PC: > > totem-xine: 2.16.5-3 > vlc: 0.8.6.a.debian-6 > kaffeine: 0.8.3-1
Actually, mostly the version of xserver-xorg-core would be relevant. Assuming it's 1.3, http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commitdiff;h=649e7f82d8d4333443493056b81eb20d6cf022bc;hp=047bf3349bb697c73c95729a8bbf15f72605901f should fix it. XSF, can we backport this fix? I nominated it for the upstream 1.3 branch, but the 1.3 release manager doesn't seem to care anymore. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer