Bug#491205: Update, new error message?

2008-07-29 Thread Arthur A
Hi, I promise I'm not coming back here at every crash, but only when I think I've got something new that might help. This time when it crashed I saw the following text above the thin multi-coloured bar (like scattered pixels of random colours) along the top, it said: local soft_irq_pending 80

Bug#491205: Request that the severity of this bug be upgraded

2008-07-29 Thread Arthur A
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 19:34:34 +0300, Arthur A wrote: Anyway, since we don't yet have a reliable workaround and this can cause data loss (just happened!) I'd like to ask that the severity of this bug be bumped up. Bumping the severity won't magically

Bug#491205: Request that the severity of this bug be upgraded

2008-07-28 Thread Arthur A
Hi, a recent batch of updates to xorg made me hope that this bug was done for, but alas, I've just lost some work for the first time after 'x' crashed irrecoverably yet again. It had been at least 5 days since a crash. I believe other than Writer the only thing open was firefox, but I had just h

Bug#491205: 491230 is duplicate of this bug?

2008-07-28 Thread Arthur A
Same behaviour described, same errors in xorg.og. Can bug 491230 be considered a duplicate of this one, and can they be merged? Regards, A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#491205: xserver-xorg-video-intel causes X to crash irrecoverably and without warning (fatal server error: lockup)

2008-07-18 Thread Arthur A
Sadly, the proposed work-around did not work. I've included my xorg.conf, xorg.0.log and gdm.log I'd be willing to try to No DRI option workaround again, however, I think that one reason it maybe appears to work is because I'm able to frequently reboot my machine, as opposed to standby and res

Bug#491205: xserver-xorg-video-intel causes X to crash irrecoverably and without warning (fatal server error: lockup)

2008-07-18 Thread Arthur A
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: Can you try the ExaNoComposite option in xorg.conf, see if this works around the bug? The problem is is knowing if it makes any difference or not because the actual crash is so hard to reproduce. Personally I think I'd prefer to

Bug#491205: xserver-xorg-video-intel causes X to crash irrecoverably and without warning (fatal server error: lockup)

2008-07-18 Thread Arthur A
Arthur A wrote: Seemingly at random, and infrequently, X will crash and I will often lose all open work. After a number of attempts to automatically restart I will be given a message saying that X has crashed and cannot be restarted. Switching to a different terminal killing all Xsessions and

Bug#491205: xserver-xorg-video-intel causes X to crash irrecoverably and without warning (fatal server error: lockup)

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.3.2-2 Severity: important Seemingly at random, and infrequently, X will crash and I will often lose all open work. After a number of attempts to automatically restart I will be given a message saying that X has crashed and cannot be restarted. Swit