[Openchrome-users] [openChrome] #398: EXA crash with new libcairo2 on a VIA VX800 Chrome 9 (IdeaPad S12)

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#398: EXA crash with new libcairo2 on a VIA VX800 Chrome 9 (IdeaPad S12)
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Reporter:  julienvdg  |       Owner:  somebody
    Type:  defect     |      Status:  new     
Priority:  minor      |   Component:  xdriver 
 Version:             |    Keywords:          
Blocking:             |   Blockedby:          
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 This was initially reported on debian at http://bugs.debian.org/612645
 (the xorg conf and logs are attached there, if you want me to duplicate
 them here, just tel me.)

 The user has the debian package based on r916

 here was what he said:

 upgrading libcairo2 to 1.10.2-2 crashes Xorg on a VIA VX800 Chrome 9
 (IdeaPad S12) when starting firefox (iceweasel) or gdm3. Downgrading
 libcairo2 to 1.8.10-6 solves the issue.

 I'm using the current openchrome from unstable with EXA enabled.
 I just spotted the crash also doesn't show up when adding
         Option "ExaNoComposite" "true"
 to xorg.conf, hence I assume the bug is more related to openchrome EXA
 than to libcairo2, thus I'm reassigning it to openchrome.

 Disabling Composite was not needed before and as far as I can see from
 disabling it at least notify-osd and screenlets did use Composite
 effects before.

 I can't really tell how deep libcairo2 is involved into the crash, since
 upgrading to 1.10.2-2 also installs EGL and XCB libs.
 I believe, the relevant candidates are
         libcairo2 1.10.2-2
         libegl1-mesa 7.10-3
         libxcb-dri2-0 1.7-2
         libxcb-xfixes0 1.7-2
 I have no idea how to narrow this down any further since libcairo2 seems
 to be the only current dependent of the others.

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