On Mit, 2013-11-27 at 13:02 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > my X crashes when certain programs are run, it started happening some > weeks ago after I updated. > > I noticed the following behaviour > 1) X11 comes up and looks fine. > 2) Windowmaker shows fonts with artefacts in the menus, window titles, etc > 3) all "classic" X11 apps (xterm, xeyes, oclock, xcalc) run, are fast, > have no problems > 4) as soon as I start iceweasel, I get a crash. If I start self-compiled > GNUstep apps, I get a crash. > > By crash, I mean that the whole X server comes down! > > It might have to do with a certain library used by all these apps? It is > already strange that windowmaker shows problems. > > All applications crashing use "cairo". It could be a pattern. > > Any help/suggestion?
It's a mach64 driver bug, fixed upstream by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-mach64/commit/?id=2c83b465b336a012f2d2716940bf483358388000 -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
