Jeremy O'Brien(neut...@fastmail.com) on 2019.05.10 10:30:42 -0400: > On Fri, May 10, 2019, at 09:58, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 09:14:00AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > Jeremy O'Brien wrote: > > > > I've snagged the 6.5 xenocara.tar.gz, patched it with just that above > > > > fix, and installed it on my system which has made X rock-stable for me. > > > > This is totally fine for me personally, but I was curious if other > > > > people have run into this issue on their 6.5 installs, and if so, is > > > > this something worth pushing a reliability errata out for? I'm > > > > unfamiliar with how the process traditionally works so please excuse me > > > > if the question is outlandish. > > > > > > security issues and major reliability issues. but we try not to spend all > > > our > > > time making errata. that fix may be a contender. depends on how widely > > > reported it is. > > > > > > > vga arbiter is only used with multiple cards which isn't the common case > > > > That's how I understood the bug too, but when I enabled a debug build of > xenocara and examined the core dump after a crash, I had the same > "VGAarbiterSpriteMoveCursor" recursive-stack backtrace as in that bug report.
I dont know much about xenocara, but i think that including dmesg and maybe /var/log/Xorg.0.log output in your mail can't hurt.
