Public bug reported: Whenever as root in a terminal, I start 'gvim', the whole windows system crashes and the user find himself on the gdm login screen. Windowing session has been lost.
It only occurs with gvim. I tried xterm, terminator and gthumb as root and these graphical application do not cause the crash. Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, all packages up to date as of 2018-05-27 11:26:45 EDT. Following is the trace found under /var/log/syslog: May 27 10:43:45 demloka gnome-shell[21426]: g_array_unref: assertion 'array' failed May 27 10:43:45 demloka gnome-shell[21426]: message repeated 2 times: [ g_array_unref: assertion 'array' failed] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: Xorg: ../../../../glamor/glamor_largepixmap.c:1449: glamor_composite_largepixmap_region: Assertion `0' failed. May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) Backtrace: May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 0: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x4d) [0x5619d46e58ad] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 1: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5619d452d000+0x1bc649) [0x5619d46e9649] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f4c99632000+0x12890) [0x7f4c99644890] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (gsignal+0xc7) [0x7f4c9927fe97] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 4: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (abort+0x141) [0x7f4c99281801] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 5: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f4c99241000+0x3039a) [0x7f4c9927139a] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f4c99241000+0x30412) [0x7f4c99271412] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so (0x7f4c95ec3000+0x21e21) [0x7f4c95ee4e21] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so (0x7f4c95ec3000+0x16362) [0x7f4c95ed9362] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 9: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5619d452d000+0x13d896) [0x5619d466a896] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 10: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5619d452d000+0x13312c) [0x5619d466012c] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 11: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5619d452d000+0x52e98) [0x5619d457fe98] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 12: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5619d452d000+0x56ee0) [0x5619d4583ee0] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 13: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7f4c99262b97] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) 14: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (_start+0x2a) [0x5619d456db8a] May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: Fatal server error: May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) Caught signal 6 (Aborted). Server aborting May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: #011 at http://wiki.x.org May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: for help. May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/hans/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch May 27 10:43:49 demloka /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[21293]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. May 27 10:43:49 demloka update-notifier[22815]: update-notifier: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. ** Affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773665 Title: gdm-x-session crash: glamor_composite_largepixmap_region: Assertion `0' failed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1773665/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs