[Intel-gfx] 4500MHD driver crash

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On July 16, 2010, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 16.07.2010, 01:50 -0600 schrieb Thomas Fjellstrom:
> > I've been having this little problem with the intel-gfx driver for a
> > couple months at least. Basically the xorg intel driver crashes with
> > these errors:
> > 
> > (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map failed: Cannot
> > allocate memory (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map
> > failed: Cannot allocate memory (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access:
> > gtt bo map failed: Cannot allocate memory (WW) intel(0):
> > i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map failed: Cannot allocate memory
> > (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map failed: Cannot
> > allocate memory (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map
> > failed: Cannot allocate memory (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access:
> > gtt bo map failed: Cannot allocate memory (WW) intel(0):
> > i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map failed: Cannot allocate memory
> > (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map failed: Cannot
> > allocate memory (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map
> > failed: Cannot allocate memory (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access:
> > gtt bo map failed: Cannot allocate memory (WW) intel(0):
> > i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map failed: Cannot allocate memory
> > 
> > Backtrace:
> > 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x466808]
> > 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x67c79) [0x467c79]
> > 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ff19b297000+0xef60) [0x7ff19b2a5f60]
> > 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0x7ff197986000+0x34684)
> > [0x7ff1979ba684] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
> > (0x7ff197986000+0x3524a) [0x7ff1979bb24a] 5:
> > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0x7ff197986000+0x3547a)
> > [0x7ff1979bb47a] 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
> > (0x7ff197986000+0x36a1b) [0x7ff1979bca1b] 7: /usr/bin/X
> > (0x400000+0xd4750) [0x4d4750]
> > 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0x7ff197986000+0x319a2)
> > [0x7ff1979b79a2] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xd4a7e) [0x4d4a7e]
> > 10: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xca92e) [0x4ca92e]
> > 11: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x4c7a4) [0x44c7a4]
> > 12: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x25b4a) [0x425b4a]
> > 13: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7ff199d9bc4d]
> > 14: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x256f9) [0x4256f9]
> > Segmentation fault at address 0x29
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
> > 
> > 
> > After a little google, I've found the following, seemingly similar
> > issues:
> > 
> > http://www.pubbs.net/201001/mandriva/43247-cooker-x-crashing.html
> > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2010-04/msg01805.html
> > 
> > This crash happens every few days, most of the time when I'm not even
> > using the laptop, and the lid is closed, but today it happened while I
> > was working. Was somewhat interesting to see things just disappear.
> > 
> > I've been trying to track this issue down for a while, someone said it
> > might be an app leaking pixmaps, but I haven't seen xrestop show more
> > than 80MB of pixmaps for quite a while. Also, it usually occurs some
> > time after graphics start getting really slow (though this last time I
> > didn't really notice things getting slow). Talking a second or two for
> > window or desktop switching. At no time was there any errors or
> > warnings in dmesg related to this, nor was I running out of memory
> > according to "free" or the plasma system load viewer applet. Usually I
> > had 1-2GB of ram available (not including cache).
> 
> At least information about the versions of the X stack you are using are
> missing.

Doh. Yeah, I must be tired.

xserver-xorg/sid uptodate 1:7.5+6
xserver-xorg-core/sid uptodate 2:1.7.7-2
xserver-xorg-video-intel/experimental uptodate 2:2.12.0-1
libgl1-mesa-dri/experimental uptodate 7.8.2-1
libdrm-intel1/experimental uptodate 2.4.21-1
linux-kernel 2.6.34

Using debian sid+experimental to get recent intel drivers.
 
> If you do not get any answer from the developers, I recommend to proceed
> as documented in [1].
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> [1] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html

Will do.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at shaw.ca