Bug 85023

Summary:

WaitForSomething(): select: Invalid argument

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Patrick Hemmer <freedesktop>

Component:

Server/General

Assignee:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Status:

RESOLVED MOVED

QA Contact:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Severity:

major

Priority:

medium

Version:

7.7 (2012.06)

Hardware:

x86-64 (AMD64)

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Xorg log	none
X11 packet capture	none

Description Patrick Hemmer 2014-10-14 23:05:01 UTC

Created attachment 107844 [details]
Xorg log

My X server is frequently crashing with the error "WaitForSomething():
select: Invalid argument". There has been a previous report on this
issue in which the suggested action was to upgrade the synaptics driver
(http://lists.x.org/pipermail/xorg/2013-May/055680.html). I am already
running a significantly newer driver than the user in that report was,
as I'm using 1.7.4.

The crash happens frequently, and mostly random. However I am able to
reproduce it on demand by launching the HipChat client. As soon as the
app finishes loading and goes to display the main window, X crashes with
the mentioned error.

I have attached the Xorg.0.log from a crashed session.

I am using:
xorg-server 1.15.0
xf86-input-evdev 2.8.2
xf86-input-synaptics 1.7.4
xf86-video-intel 2.21.15
kernel 3.14.14

Comment 1 Patrick Hemmer 2014-10-14 23:06:46 UTC

Created attachment 107845 [details]
X11 packet capture

This attachment is a packet capture of HipChat talking to the X server at the time of the crash.

Comment 2 Patrick Hemmer 2014-10-15 02:26:25 UTC

Got a core dump of the process. Looks like it's dying because the timeout being passed to `select()` is negative.

    gdb> bt
    #0  0x00007f9e164e17d5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
    #1  0x00007f9e164e2c58 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
    #2  0x0000000000658379 in OsAbort ()
        at /stmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0/work/xorg-server-1.15.0/os/utils.c:1324
    #3  0x0000000000661a5d in AbortServer ()
        at /stmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0/work/xorg-server-1.15.0/os/log.c:773
    #4  0x0000000000661f19 in FatalError (f=0x68bb40 "WaitForSomething(): select: %s\n")
        at /stmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0/work/xorg-server-1.15.0/os/log.c:911
    #5  0x000000000064b055 in WaitForSomething (pClientsReady=0x28702d0)
        at /stmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0/work/xorg-server-1.15.0/os/WaitFor.c:240
    #6  0x0000000000439a69 in Dispatch ()
        at /stmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0/work/xorg-server-1.15.0/dix/dispatch.c:362
    #7  0x0000000000449052 in dix_main (argc=9, argv=0x7fff32f67b38, envp=0x7fff32f67b88)
        at /stmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0/work/xorg-server-1.15.0/dix/main.c:294
    #8  0x0000000000428566 in main (argc=9, argv=0x7fff32f67b38, envp=0x7fff32f67b88)
        at /stmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0/work/xorg-server-1.15.0/dix/stubmain.c:34

    gdb> frame 5
    #5  0x000000000064b055 in WaitForSomething (pClientsReady=0x28702d0)
        at /stmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0/work/xorg-server-1.15.0/os/WaitFor.c:240
    240	                    FatalError("WaitForSomething(): select: %s\n",
    
    gdb> info locals
    i = -1
    waittime = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = -1000}
    wt = 0x7fff32f678f0
    timeout = 995502960
    clientsReadable = {fds_bits = {0 <repeats 16 times>}}
    clientsWritable = {fds_bits = {44093408, 44669824, 140734048401728, 32, 42681776, 0, 0, 9357480, 
        42695344, 4299326544, 0, 140734048401728, 43854944, 193282885800, 42895152, 32}}
    curclient = 6629778
    selecterr = 22
    nready = 0
    devicesReadable = {fds_bits = {137448269120, 6636748, 137439242001, 140734048401680, 44093408, 
        44669824, 0, 6676162, 42695344, 4294967296, 140734048401392, 43854944, 137481648816, 6636748, 
        137438953472, 140734048401728}}
    now = 118002955
    someReady = 0

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2018-12-13 22:30:56 UTC

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