[Bug 579081] New: photopile screensaver causes system lockup

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11 Feb 2010 11 Feb '10

13:27

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579081 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579081#c0 Summary: photopile screensaver causes system lockup Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: admin@different-perspectives.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) I was suffering intermittent lockups of the oS 11.2 gnome system when idle. Only available recover route was power cycle then filesystem rebuild. I believe these are caused by the photopile screensaver, as I saw this screensaver loading, get to 71% and then lockup. I have gnome as the desktop under gdm with the screensaver set as "random". I have x-screensavers + gnome-screensavers installed. I've removed this screensaver (deleted the files) and the lockups have (so far) stopped. I have no evidence from the lockups of exactly what was happening - nothing in the system logs, no dumps (computer was still running). Is there any way I can collect evidence about whether this was the culprit and about why it was failing? Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait! 2. wait some more! 3. Actual Results: Sometime it locks up. No log entries. No dump produced. I have a large collection of print quality photos from a variety of sources on this computer. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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16 Feb 16 Feb

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New subject: [Bug 579081] photopile screensaver causes system lockup

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579081 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579081#c1 Vincent Untz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |vuntz@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo. |sbrabec@novell.com |novell.com | --- Comment #1 from Vincent Untz 2010-02-16 12:47:59 UTC --- Stanislav might be able to help you debug this (Stanislav: I'm assuming this because you're the most active person on xscreensaver, apparently) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 579081] photopile screensaver causes system lockup

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579081 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579081#c2 Stanislav Brabec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |admin@different-perspective | |s.com --- Comment #2 from Stanislav Brabec 2010-02-16 14:36:28 CET --- It would be nice to guess what is happening. Could you provide some more details? Here are possibilities: Bug in kernel graphics driver causes crash. In this case system does not respond to ping, short press of off button, nothing. Debugging: kernel debugging using e. g. serial cable. Bug in one of X libraries or kernel graphics driver causes crash. It might cause graphics state corruption. System still works, but access to video is not posible. System reacts to ping, it is possible to ssh. Bug in one of X libraries or race condition. It may cause locking mouse and/or keyboard. System reacts to ping, it is possible to ssh and killing the screensaver makes system working again. Bug in xgamma (reported before, hard to reproduce). System works, but all colors are black. Correct call of xgamma fixes display.

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I have a large collection of print quality photos from a variety of sources on this computer.

And it is possible that photopile attempts to make collage from these photos and goes out of memory. In this case you may experience heavy disc activity and extremely slow or no response. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.