Bugs item #798544, was opened at 2003-09-01 16:00 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sfrowd You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=428680&aid=798544&group_id=40696
Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Ciprian Popovici (sfrowd) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Strange segfault with 0.65 Initial Comment: I use Blackbox 0.65 compiled with gcc 3.3 on a system equivalent to Red Hat 8.0 (or 9.0) -- I have updated by RPM to the latest packages. Blackbox has the win9x_buttons and flatborder patches applied. It has worked fine like this for a few months now. But yesterday I got three unexpected crashes for no apparent reason. Blackbox simply dies and dumps core at seemingly random moments. I managed to grab a backtrace from the core file, which I have attached. I can't reproduce the problem, it just happens. FWIW, my ~/.blackboxrc is chmod 400, so it doesn't get overwritten on exit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Ciprian Popovici (sfrowd) Date: 2003-09-14 02:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=667423 I've added a couple of backtraces (marked 4 and 9) that are different from the one already here (marked 3). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ciprian Popovici (sfrowd) Date: 2003-09-04 09:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=667423 To webdragon: Yes, I have the latest NVidia and the proper X config flags. However, that doesn't seem relevant anymore since I finally got a segfault while running without 'mem=nopentium'. I will upload the backtrace later today. To developers: are the backtraces of any use? They seem different from one another and I can keep uploading them, but I hope there's any point in doing that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Scott R. Godin (webdragon) Date: 2003-09-03 12:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=231518 I am running Red Hat 9 (and was running 8.0) with a Duron 1.1Ghz and a Riva TNT2 card... and have been using the nvidia drivers since I got the card. I have never ever used the mem=nopentium switch in the kernel boot config, and have not had any of these problems are you updated with the latest nvidia driver patch and did you follow the instructions to remove certain of the X switches in XF86Config after installing it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ciprian Popovici (sfrowd) Date: 2003-09-03 11:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=667423 It seems that the crash has something to do with passing mem=nopentium to the kernel at boot time. I can't be 100% sure that is the cause, but I noticed the crash happens always when the machine was booted with mem=nopentium and never without. mem=nopentium helps me avoid some X freeze problems which otherwise occur due to the NVidia video card + AMD processor combination. I've only recently started using mem=nopentium, that would explain why the recent crashes. I've grabbed a couple more gdb backtraces but they all look different from each other. I'll attach them if needed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=428680&aid=798544&group_id=40696 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
