Bug#216933: marked as done (libx11-6: many clients get BadLength error from X_ChangeProperty request [Transmeta Crusoe CMS bug])

2008-06-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#216933: Workaround for the CMS bug

2006-03-17 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Hi, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > > I did investigate a bit further the problem. > > When starting X on the laptop, the LCD display blank and stay in this > state. The network access allowed me to see what was happening. The > Xorg server is using 80-90% of the CPU power: > > PID USER PR NI

Bug#216933: Workaround for the CMS bug

2006-01-20 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Hi, I did investigate a bit further the problem. When starting X on the laptop, the LCD display blank and stay in this state. The network access allowed me to see what was happening. The Xorg server is using 80-90% of the CPU power: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ CO

Bug#216933: Workaround for the CMS bug

2006-01-17 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Hi all, Joey Hess wrote: > > I haven't been seeing it with x.org 6.9 packages built with recent > gcc's, but I assume this just means the code has stopped tickling the > underlying bug in the crusoe code morpher. My problems had disappeared for a while since Xorg was here. But, since Xorg 6.9 I a

Bug#216933: Workaround for the CMS bug

2006-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
David Martínez Moreno wrote: > What happened about the nasty Transmeta bug with X? > Did you see any changes with new 6.9 packages and/or gcc-4.0? I haven't been seeing it with x.org 6.9 packages built with recent gcc's, but I assume this just means the code has stopped tickling the underlying bu

Bug#216933: Workaround for the CMS bug

2006-01-16 Thread David Martínez Moreno
Hello, Emmanuel, Joey. What happened about the nasty Transmeta bug with X? Did you see any changes with new 6.9 packages and/or gcc-4.0? Best regards, Ender. -- Network engineer Debian Developer pgpQr0Y43k5WL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#216933: Release notes: please include "cantfix" Crusoe/X bug 216933

2005-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 14:12, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > So here is the sample text: I have included most of the proposed text, but shortened it somewhat as the link to http://www.cs.auc.dk/~fleury/bug_cms/ IMO provides a very good overview of details and exceptions. Beside this link, I've only

Bug#216933: Release notes: please include "cantfix" Crusoe/X bug 216933

2005-05-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
prietary CMS, making further fixes unlikely. For more details, see Debian bug #216933, freedesktop.org bugzilla id 455 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455) and detailed technical analysis and a list of known platforms with the bug at http://www.cs.auc.dk/~fleury/bug_cms/ . On Fri, 2005

Bug#216933: Release notes: please include "cantfix" Crusoe/X bug 216933

2005-05-06 Thread Rob Bradford
Adam C Powell IV wrote: I'd be happy to suggest wording for such a section, just let me know. Please do this and send it to me and CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Bug#216933: Release notes: please include "cantfix" Crusoe/X bug 216933

2005-04-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, There's a major X stability problem with Transmeta Crusoe CPUs and Radeon Mobility graphics hardware, discussed in Debian bug 216933, in X.org bugzilla, and at http://www.cs.auc.dk/~fleury/bug_cms/ . This bug causes X to crash seemingly randomly at a rate of approximately ever

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Re: Bug#216933: Chris Lange talks but his ISP's MTA won't listen

2004-10-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:29:31PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Careless blacklister alert: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host tardis.ath.cx[202.161.125.100] said: 554 Service > unavailable; Client host [65.26.182.85] blocked using t1.dnsbl.net.au; > 65.26.182.85 See > http://www.dnsbl.

Bug#216933: Chris Lange talks but his ISP's MTA won't listen

2004-10-14 Thread Branden Robinson
Careless blacklister alert: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host tardis.ath.cx[202.161.125.100] said: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [65.26.182.85] blocked using t1.dnsbl.net.au; 65.26.182.85 See http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?NAME=65.26.182.85 (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Bug#216933: Compiling XFree86 4.3.0 with -O0 seems to be a workaround

2004-10-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:51:18PM +1000, Chris Lange wrote: > I've compiled XFree86 4.3.0 with the following compiler flags, > -march=i386 -mcpu=i386 -O0 -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions, > and my system has now been running without a hitch for 19 days (i was > usually getting the "BadLengt

Bug#216933: update

2004-10-09 Thread Joey Hess
I've been running with current unstable versions of xserver-xfree86-dbg for long enough to sometimes forget this bug. It's never shown up while I'm running the -debug binary. This is a great workaround. I suppose the next step would be to binary search through, building individual files and eventu

Bug#216933: Compiling XFree86 4.3.0 with -O0 seems to be a workaround

2004-09-21 Thread Chris Lange
Hi, I have a laptop with a TM Crusoe TM5800 and ATi mobility M and have been experiencing this same problem (albeit with Fedora Core 1 -- sorry for posting here but i haven't found any other mention of it on the web and thought the info might be handy to others) I've compiled XFree86 4.3.0 with t

Bug#216933: Bug#261251: xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon+crusoe] Xclients are crashing at start

2004-07-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
priority 261251 normal merge 261251 216933 thanks On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 17:17 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > > I am hunting a very strange bug (probably hardware related). This bug > has been reported by several people in bug #234556 as a bug of the > xlibs package but I think I managed to push

Bug#216933: XFree86 bug only seen on transmeta processors (BadLength from X_ChangeProperty request)

2004-07-24 Thread Simon Huggins
e wondering if it is your code morphing that is breaking X some how. You can see the report at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216933 Joey Hess's comments in this bug and the similarity between all the users having your chips have made me contact you. The merged bug is at: h

Bug#216933: also having this isue

2004-04-20 Thread Karl Putland
I'm not a debian user, but I've also got a fujitsu 2110 and have had this issue with fedora C1, and gentoo 2004.0 gnome get totally hosed but kde seems to behave better. With kde the mouse leaves artifacts just before a crash and like the rest of you if I wait for some period of time it seems to

Bug#216933: Same problem, similar hardware.

2004-03-22 Thread Simon Fowler
I've got a P2120: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineTMx86 cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800 stepping: 3 cpu MHz : 925.007 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug: n

Bug#216933: Sigh, me too!

2004-02-26 Thread Obi
I've been plagued with the BadLength error for sometimes now, and sure enough I have a P2110. My machine has been quite stable for few years before this BadLenght things, and I used to use the retinalburn DRI+Xv patch to watch DVDs (sometimes without the DRI part), and I've never had problems with

Bug#216933: followup

2004-02-23 Thread Joey Hess
I've been using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-10 for weeks, and it worked great until today, when firebird died with a badlength error. Now dropping back to 4.2.1-2, sigh. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#216933: also experiencing the same error

2004-01-28 Thread jesse crocker
I have been experiencing this same error on my sony vaio u1. It has been happening for at least 2 months. I am running unstable, and currently have xlibs 4.2.1-15. Like the others reporting this bug i also has a transmeta cpu. I have a "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY" video card. Some

Bug#216933: update

2004-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
I downgraded the X server to 4.2.1-11, and did not see the problem for nearly a week, but it has just reared its ugly head again, so that didn't fix it. I will go back to -10 now.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#216933: Another datapoint...

2004-01-22 Thread Ole Myren Rohne
I also see the annoying BadLength/X_ChangeProperty on my p2120/ATI Radeom M6/XFree86 4.3.0 (Fedora). I've experimented a little, and at one point I had two displays running simultaneously, one showing the problem and the other not. This was with two different executables, the standard one and a

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > xiTK WARNING(_x_error_handler:215): X error received: 'BadLength (poly > > request too large or internal Xlib length error)' > > xine seems to be able to deal with the error; many (most?) X apps don't > do any error handling, so AFAIK they get killed by the default libX11

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:16, Christopher Hart wrote: > So this evening I've hit the bug - 3 times. I'm not doing anything > special, but I did stumble upon an interesting quark to the problem. > Xine works after the "crash". [...] > xiTK WARNING(_x_error_handler:215): X error received: 'BadLengt

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-21 Thread Christopher Hart
So this evening I've hit the bug - 3 times. I'm not doing anything special, but I did stumble upon an interesting quark to the problem. Xine works after the "crash". If I run xclock - I get the the standard: --- begin paste --- X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or int

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 01:10, Joey Hess wrote: > Google has one relevant hit for "BadLength (poly request too large or > internal Xlib length error) fujitsu": > http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/116108 > > Another Fujitsu P2110, running slackware. > X began "crashing" after he upgraded f

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Google has one relevant hit for "BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) fujitsu": http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/116108 Another Fujitsu P2110, running slackware. X began "crashing" after he upgraded from slackare 9 to 10. He decided that an ATI patch from h

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Tue, 20 Jan skrev Michel Dänzer ned dette: MD> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:51, Christopher Hart wrote: >> > > I also started having this problem just this fall. The tranmetta >> > > code-morphing bug is still plausible, but unless Joe's laptop is >> > > significantly different from the p2120 a var

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Tue, 20 Jan skrev Joey Hess ned dette: JH> Åsmund Ødegård wrote: >> just like to tell you that I experience this problem as well. Even when only >> running a couple of rxvt's and emacs. >> >> I have never managed to recover without a reboot though, but thats probably >> because of impatience...

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:51, Christopher Hart wrote: > > > I also started having this problem just this fall. The tranmetta > > > code-morphing bug is still plausible, but unless Joe's laptop is > > > significantly different from the p2120 a variety of the other components > > > might be at fault

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Christopher Hart
> > I also started having this problem just this fall. The tranmetta > > code-morphing bug is still plausible, but unless Joe's laptop is > > significantly different from the p2120 a variety of the other components > > might be at fault. > > It seems unlikely to me that we all experienced a

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Christopher Hart wrote: > > > > > > Hardware: laptop, Fujitsu lifebook p2120 > > > x: 4.3.0-0pre1v5, but I had the same problem with the xserver-xfree86 from > > >sid > > The trend continues... I also have a lifebook p2120. However I'm > running xserver-xfree86: 4.2.1-12.1. I forget whe

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Christopher Hart
> > > > Hardware: laptop, Fujitsu lifebook p2120 > > x: 4.3.0-0pre1v5, but I had the same problem with the xserver-xfree86 from > >sid The trend continues... I also have a lifebook p2120. However I'm running xserver-xfree86: 4.2.1-12.1. > When did you start having the problem? I assume

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Åsmund Ødegård wrote: > just like to tell you that I experience this problem as well. Even when only > running a couple of rxvt's and emacs. > > I have never managed to recover without a reboot though, but thats probably > because of impatience... > > Hardware: laptop, Fujitsu lifebook p2120 > x

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-20 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Mon, 19 Jan skrev Joey Hess: > It's almost encouraging to hear that Christopher Hart has the same > problem I do. I had begun to truely distrust my hardware. I wonder what > hardware Christopher is using? [snip] just like to tell you that I experience this problem as well. Even when only running

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 20:26, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > So: what if there is a bug in the optimizer, which generates incorrect > > optimised code for either the X server, or X library, but only > > sometimes. Some kind of math error might be involved. Once the badly > > optimised code

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > So: what if there is a bug in the optimizer, which generates incorrect > optimised code for either the X server, or X library, but only > sometimes. Some kind of math error might be involved. Once the badly > optimised code pops up, it would stay in the cache and this would > exp

Bug#216933: more thoughts on the X_ChangeProperty problem

2004-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
It's almost encouraging to hear that Christopher Hart has the same problem I do. I had begun to truely distrust my hardware. I wonder what hardware Christopher is using? I still see the problem, on a perhaps slightly less frequent basis, but still every other day or so. I have not managed to corre

Bug#216933: Any resolution to this? I too have the problem.

2003-12-12 Thread Christopher Hart
Hi, I've been experiencing this exact problem stochastically as well. Often it seems that mozilla or mozilla-firebird seem to be the application that breaks X for me. However it isn't always mozilla that is the culprit so clearly there may be a link, but its not the problem directly. As a hacki

Bug#216933: update; log

2003-11-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:28:59AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 01:09, Joey Hess wrote: > > (FWIW, I can reproduce the problem running X programs such as xterm, > > from stable, on another computer with the DISPLAY set back to my laptop.) > > That would point to the server s

Bug#216933: update; log

2003-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 01:09, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Perhaps I should try a proprietary X server, a different X driver > > (VESA)? Or install X in a stable chroot. If I can reproduce the problems > > in any of those, it would be a hardware or kernel problem, right now my >

Bug#216933: update; log

2003-11-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 01:09, Joey Hess wrote: > > Perhaps I should try a proprietary X server, a different X driver > (VESA)? Or install X in a stable chroot. If I can reproduce the problems > in any of those, it would be a hardware or kernel problem, right now my > money is still on the X server.

Bug#216933: update; log

2003-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Siward wrote: > here's my 2c , just a long shot ... > did you consider that it could be a hardware problem, >e.g. in the videocard ? > i heard of thermal defects that can do things like this, >e.g. a cracked solderjoint opening/closing a connection >depending on temperature > if yo

Bug#216933: update; log

2003-11-05 Thread Siward
Hi Joey, here's my 2c , just a long shot ... did you consider that it could be a hardware problem, e.g. in the videocard ? i heard of thermal defects that can do things like this, e.g. a cracked solderjoint opening/closing a connection depending on temperature if you take your hard

Processed: Re: Bug#216933: update; log

2003-11-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 216933 - moreinfo Bug#216933: xlibs: many clients get BadLength error from X_ChangeProperty request Tags were: moreinfo Tags removed: moreinfo > tag 216933 + help Bug#216933: xlibs: many clients get BadLength error from X_ChangeProperty r

Bug#216933: update; log

2003-11-04 Thread Branden Robinson
tag 216933 - moreinfo tag 216933 + help thanks On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:35:39PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm not sure why this bug is tagged moreinfo; I have responded to all > requests for information. Sorry, it's only tagged that way because I forgot to untag it. -- G. Branden Robinson

Bug#216933: update; log

2003-11-04 Thread Joey Hess
I'm not sure why this bug is tagged moreinfo; I have responded to all requests for information. Since I reported the bug, I have begun keeping a log of each occurance, to try to work out what triggers it. I cannot see a pattern though. Here is my current log: 26 Oct fail: 5:10 pm action: had jus

Bug#216933: full backtrace

2003-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Damnit, that didn't take long. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/debug/ gdb ./xlogo GNU gdb 6.0-debian Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it unde

Bug#216933: full backtrace

2003-10-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:20:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Breakpoint 9, 0x402bd9b6 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6 > (gdb) bt > #0 0x402bd9b6 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #1 0x40200beb in _XDefaultError (dpy=0x1, event=0x1) at XlibInt.c:2846 > #2 0x40200ce4 in _XError (dpy=0x8054328, rep=0

Bug#216933: full backtrace

2003-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:20:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Breakpoint 9, 0x402bd9b6 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6 > > (gdb) bt > > #0 0x402bd9b6 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6 > > #1 0x40200beb in _XDefaultError (dpy=0x1, event=0x1) at XlibInt.c:2846 > > #2 0x40200

Bug#216933: full backtrace

2003-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
(gdb) b exit Breakpoint 9 at 0x402bd9b6 (gdb) c Continuing. X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Serial number of failed request: 29 Current serial number in output stream: 30 Br

Bug#216933: (no subject)

2003-10-26 Thread dyso
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Bug#216933: this just gets weirder

2003-10-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:01:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Now I am seeing the X problem go away in the time it takes me to install > > libxaw7-dbg and start up gdb on xlogo. This is twice now that it has > > somehow recovered after exhibiting the problem, with me just waiting a > > little whil

Bug#216933: this just gets weirder

2003-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
> Now I am seeing the X problem go away in the time it takes me to install > libxaw7-dbg and start up gdb on xlogo. This is twice now that it has > somehow recovered after exhibiting the problem, with me just waiting a > little while in between. > > At approximatly 12:42, mozilla-firebird died wit

Bug#216933: this just gets weirder

2003-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
Now I am seeing the X problem go away in the time it takes me to install libxaw7-dbg and start up gdb on xlogo. This is twice now that it has somehow recovered after exhibiting the problem, with me just waiting a little while in between. At approximatly 12:42, mozilla-firebird died with the BadLen

Bug#216933: X_ChangeProperty protocol error

2003-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: > This problem description blows my mind. No matter how hosed the X > server on :0 (or :1) is, the different instance at :2 should not be > affected. Unless it's a bug in the source code. But then why don't you > see this problem from the beginning? A little birdie is te

Processed: Re: Bug#216933: X_ChangeProperty protocol error

2003-10-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 216933 xlibs: many clients get BadLength error from X_ChangeProperty request Bug#216933: X_ChangeProperty protocol error Changed Bug title. > tag 216933 + moreinfo Bug#216933: xlibs: many clients get BadLength error from X_ChangePr

Bug#216933: X_ChangeProperty protocol error

2003-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
retitle 216933 xlibs: many clients get BadLength error from X_ChangeProperty request tag 216933 + moreinfo thanks On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:46:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This is the problem I mentioned on irc. For the past week, plus or > minus, X will once or twice a day hose itself. Then si

Bug#216933: X_ChangeProperty protocol error

2003-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xlibs Version: 4.2.1-12.1 Severity: normal This is the problem I mentioned on irc. For the past week, plus or minus, X will once or twice a day hose itself. Then simple X programs all fail to run with the same problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>xterm X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly