Created attachment 32305 [details] output of dmesg| grep nouveau The nouveau driver crashes somwhere while doing EXA stuff ( I can reproduce it by opening the noscript menu in firefox or using thunderbird for some time..) gdb gave me this output: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb730ae4e in NVAccelUploadM2MF () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so (gdb) bt #0 0xb730ae4e in NVAccelUploadM2MF () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so #1 0xb730b46e in nouveau_exa_upload_to_screen () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so #2 0xb60fe1ae in exaHWCopyNtoN () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so #3 0xb60fe6d8 in exaCopyNtoN () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so #4 0x081b677a in miCopyRegion () #5 0x081b6d25 in miDoCopy () #6 0xb60fcae6 in exaCopyArea () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so #7 0x08108a3f in damageCopyArea () #8 0x08089a4c in ProcCopyArea () #9 0x0808bd87 in Dispatch () #10 0x080638ab in main ()
Created attachment 32311 [details] Xorg log of the crash
Is it still the case on recent version of xf86-video-nouveau?
Yes, it is. https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29193
The altlinux bug is completely unrelated. That one happens when the GPU has locked up, EXA doesn't handle that quite as gracefully as it might and so X crashes. This was a much more, uh, "legitimate" crash, and not provoked by a heavily-using GL app. As we haven't heard from the original reporter in almost 4 years, closing this as invalid (since "fixed" is a bit too strong).
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