Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:49:26AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > I did try to downgrade, but I'm not sure I succeeded. Do you want me > > to try again? So I did try again with libc 2.11.2-11 and the bug remains: fbdev crashes. > The other loose thread I'm curious about is what triggered t

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:46:35AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > [ Dropping the libc6 list from CC, as this doesn't seem to have anything > > to do with libc6 after all ] > > Yes, sorry for the misdirection. > > Actually I have a question in mind still. The origina

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:30:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > So, where does that leave this report? I still suspect the bug is that > the fbdev driver doesn't properly handle the virtual directive in > SubSection "Display", but before reassigning to xserver-xorg-video-fbdev > (and most likely

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michel Dänzer wrote: > [ Dropping the libc6 list from CC, as this doesn't seem to have anything > to do with libc6 after all ] Yes, sorry for the misdirection. Actually I have a question in mind still. The original report pinned it on libc6 confidently, and I didn't think to question that (sha

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
[ Dropping the libc6 list from CC, as this doesn't seem to have anything to do with libc6 after all ] On Don, 2011-05-05 at 23:14 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 23:41 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > O

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 23:41 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > Steve, can you provide the output of fbset -i and the > > > "/etc/X11/xorg.conf file as well? An

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-05 Thread sean finney
Hi, On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:56:27PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > And furthermore, even if Debian chooses to "fix" this, upstreams will > > be forced to eventually cater to the default glibc behavior for every > > other libc distro out there that does not have their own "fix" (and > > non-

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 23:41 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Steve, can you provide the output of fbset -i and the > > "/etc/X11/xorg.conf file as well? Any reason for not using the radeon > > driver? > > I don't know why the r

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:18:35AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Thanks, Michel. Steve, could you install xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg > and get a full backtrace (bt full), or even better, run xorg under > valgrind and see what it says? OK, I ran valgrind Xorg; note that valgrind was not exit

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:29:53AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 02:18 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Thanks, Michel. Steve, could you install xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg > > [...] > > More importantly xserver-xorg-core-dbg, to get debugging symbols > for /usr/lib/xo

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Steve, can you provide the output of fbset -i and the > "/etc/X11/xorg.conf file as well? Any reason for not using the radeon > driver? I don't know why the radeon driver is not in use. I have two monitors (1600x1200 and 1920x1200)

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:29:50PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm with Linus on this: let's just revert to the old behaviour. A > > tiny amount of clock cycles saved isn't worth the instability. > > Tiny amount?! The optimized memcpy() variants that b

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread sean finney
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:29:50PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm with Linus on this: let's just revert to the old behaviour. A > > tiny amount of clock cycles saved isn't worth the instability. > > Tiny amount?! The optimized memcpy() variants that b

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Le 04/05/2011 09:05, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Le 04/05/2011 07:43, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : >>> Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Sounds like http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 which is fixed (sort of) by commit 0354e355 (2011-04-01). >> >> Are you s

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michel Dänzer (04/05/2011): > Those are just callback pointers passed to shadowAdd(). The driver > doesn't call shadowUpdatePacked() directly (in fact you'll note the > backtrace doesn't have any frames belonging to the driver), but the > shadow layer is only used as set up by the driver. Alright

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 11:08 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michel Dänzer (04/05/2011): > > More importantly xserver-xorg-core-dbg, to get debugging symbols > > for /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so . > > If fbdev is indeed used (see Michel's other mail about that), > rebuilding it with debuggi

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michel Dänzer (04/05/2011): > More importantly xserver-xorg-core-dbg, to get debugging symbols > for /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so . If fbdev is indeed used (see Michel's other mail about that), rebuilding it with debugging symbols would be nice. AFAICT from a quick grep, the entry point to

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 02:18 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 00:10 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >> Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > >>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > >>> __memcpy_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcp

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 02:18 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 00:10 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >> Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > >>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > >>> __memcpy_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcp

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 00:10 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Steve M. Robbins wrote: >>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. >>> __memcpy_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcpy-ssse3.S:153 >>> 153 ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcpy-ssse3.S:

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Le 04/05/2011 07:43, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : >> Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Sounds like http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 >>> which is fixed (sort of) by commit 0354e355 (2011-04-01). > > Are you sure this is related? I find strange a recent version of x

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Le 04/05/2011 07:43, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > clone 625521 -1 > severity 625521 grave > severity -1 important > reassign -1 libc6 2.13-0exp1 > retitle -1 glibc: memcpy copies down on amd64 > tags -1 upstream patch fixed-upstream > # sorry for the noise > quit > > Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >> So

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
clone 625521 -1 severity 625521 grave severity -1 important reassign -1 libc6 2.13-0exp1 retitle -1 glibc: memcpy copies down on amd64 tags -1 upstream patch fixed-upstream # sorry for the noise quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Sounds like http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 > which

Bug#625521: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:10:48AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Sounds like http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 > which is fixed (sort of) by commit 0354e355 (2011-04-01). Oh my word. So glibc 2.13 breaks random binaries that happened to incorrectly use memcpy() instead of me