Bug 14208

Summary: Crash in VMWare driver caused by GDM
Product: xorg Reporter: Hans Petter Jansson <hpj>
Component: Driver/VMWareAssignee: Nolan Leake <nolan>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: major    
Priority: medium    
Version: git   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Hans Petter Jansson 2008-01-22 21:09:10 UTC 
When I boot a VMWare image of openSUSE 11.0 (beta), X crashes repeatedly, and GDM shows an error dialog in text mode. I've managed to produce a stack trace from x.org, using gdb in a remote login thusly:

[In remote console]

init 3
while true; do sleep 1; XPID=$(pidof X); if [ "$XPID" != "" ]; then gdb X $XPID; fi; done

[In main console]

init 5

GDM starts up, starts X. gdb attaches to and suspends X, and I tell it to continue execution. I then get a crash, the stack trace for which I'll attach.

X.org is latest git version.
Comment 1 Hans Petter Jansson 2008-01-22 21:11:24 UTC 
Created attachment 13872 [details]
Stack trace.
Comment 2 Hans Petter Jansson 2008-01-22 21:12:32 UTC 
pSrc->pDrawable == NULL, dereferencing it causes the crash.
Comment 3 Hans Petter Jansson 2008-01-22 21:15:54 UTC 
The openSUSE bug where we first discussed this:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=353489
Comment 4 Michel Dänzer 2009-12-29 09:40:18 UTC 
Should be fixed in xf86-video-vmware 10.16.9. Please reopen if the problem still occurs with that.

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