In addition, BioImageXD, an application that uses python and wxPython widgets with opengl as well, freezes miserably the same way Blender does: the mouse can be dragged (and has an opengl cursor), but the whole computer is not responsive, takes forever (a minute or two) to ssh to it and issue a reboot command.
The affected computer details (cpuinfo, lspci, dmesg): $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7400, altivec supported temperature : 27-29 C (uncalibrated) clock : 500.000000MHz revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209) bogomips : 49.66 processor : 1 cpu : 7400, altivec supported temperature : 31-33 C (uncalibrated) clock : 500.000000MHz revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209) bogomips : 49.66 total bogomips : 99.32 timebase : 24907667 platform : PowerMac machine : PowerMac3,3 motherboard : PowerMac3,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 65 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics) pmac flags : 00000014 L2 cache : 1024K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld $ lspci 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI 0001:10:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev 05) 0001:11:07.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 03) 0001:11:08.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB 0001:11:09.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB 0001:11:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link) 0002:21:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI 0002:21:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 01) $ dmesg [ 0.000000] Using PowerMac machine description [ 0.000000] Total memory = 896MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at cfe00000) [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.17-10-powerpc-smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)) #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 16:39:10 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-10.33-powerpc-smp) [ 0.000000] Found initrd at 0xc1900000:0xc1ebb000 [ 0.000000] Found UniNorth memory controller & host bridge @ 0xf8000000 revision: 0x08 [ 0.000000] Mapped at 0xfdfc0000 [ 0.000000] Found a Keylargo mac-io controller, rev: 3, mapped at 0xfdf40000 [ 0.000000] PowerMac motherboard: PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics [ 0.000000] Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf0000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0 [ 0.000000] Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf2000000. Firmware bus number: 0->1 [ 0.000000] Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf4000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0 [ 0.000000] via-pmu: Server Mode is disabled [ 0.000000] PMU driver v2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0c [ 0.000000] nvram: Checking bank 0... [ 0.000000] nvram: gen0=312, gen1=313 [ 0.000000] nvram: Active bank is: 1 [ 0.000000] nvram: OF partition at 0x210 [ 0.000000] nvram: XP partition at 0x1220 [ 0.000000] nvram: NR partition at 0x1320 [ 0.000000] Top of RAM: 0x38000000, Total RAM: 0x38000000 [ 0.000000] Memory hole size: 0MB [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 229376 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 196608 pages, LIFO batch:31 [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 32768 pages, LIFO batch:7 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash [ 0.000000] mpic: Setting up MPIC " MPIC 1 " version 1.2 at 80040000, max 4 CPUs [ 0.000000] mpic: ISU size: 64, shift: 6, mask: 3f [ 0.000000] mpic: Initializing for 64 sources [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) [ 0.000000] GMT Delta read from XPRAM: 120 minutes, DST: on [ 0.000000] time_init: decrementer frequency = 24.907667 MHz [ 0.000000] time_init: processor frequency = 500.000000 MHz [ 27.914458] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 27.915612] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 27.917413] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 27.998762] High memory: 131072k [ 27.998777] Memory: 896880k/917504k available (2880k kernel code, 151148k reserved, 440k data, 297k bss, 184k init) [ 27.999155] Calibrating delay loop... 49.66 BogoMIPS (lpj=99328) [ 28.078295] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [ 28.078327] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 28.078378] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 28.078875] device-tree: Duplicate name in /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED], renamed to "l2-cache#1" [ 28.078982] device-tree: Duplicate name in /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED], renamed to "l2-cache#1" [ 28.081498] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 29.629383] Freeing initrd memory: 5868k freed [ 29.630445] PowerMac SMP probe found 2 cpus [ 29.630528] KeyWest i2c @0xf8001003 irq 42 /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ 29.630540] channel 0 bus <multibus> [ 29.630547] channel 1 bus <multibus> [ 29.630568] KeyWest i2c @0x80018000 irq 26 /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ 29.630578] channel 0 bus <multibus> [ 29.630601] PMU i2c /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ 29.630611] channel 1 bus <multibus> [ 29.630618] channel 2 bus <multibus> [ 29.630670] Processor timebase sync using GPIO 0x73 [ 29.630679] requesting IPIs ... [ 29.630692] IPIs requested... [ 29.630699] CPU0: L2CR is b9000000 [ 0.358131] CPU1: L2CR was 39000000 [ 0.358212] CPU1: L2CR set to b9000000 [ 29.632169] Processor 1 found. [ 29.632197] Brought up 2 CPUs [ 30.135209] migration_cost=6243 [ 30.136508] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 30.136970] PCI: Probing PCI hardware [ 30.142067] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 30.178299] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 30.178651] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 30.182883] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 30.184873] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [ 30.184885] TCP reno registered [ 30.185047] Thermal assist unit using timers, shrink_timer: 500 jiffies [ 30.187787] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 30.187842] audit(1163231850.271:1): initialized [ 30.188046] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages [ 30.188340] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 30.188406] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 30.188596] Initializing Cryptographic API [ 30.188613] io scheduler noop registered [ 30.188639] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 30.188662] io scheduler deadline registered [ 30.188710] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 30.189421] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0086 -> 0087) [ 30.190303] aty128fb: Invalid ROM signature 1111 should be 0xaa55 [ 30.190326] aty128fb: BIOS not located, guessing timings. [ 30.190343] aty128fb: Rage128 PF PRO AGP [chip rev 0x1] 16M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1) [ 30.224530] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 [ 30.224555] fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on Rage128 PF PRO AGP [ 30.313553] Generic RTC Driver v1.07 [ 30.313681] Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1 [ 30.313992] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 30.316004] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [ 30.316687] MacIO PCI driver attached to Keylargo chipset [ 30.319429] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 [ 30.319867] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [ 30.319881] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 30.320054] adb: starting probe task... [ 30.320071] adb: finished probe task... [ 31.338148] ide0: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-4 controller, bus ID 2, irq 19 [ 31.338178] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 31.626448] hda: IBM-DPTA-372050, ATA DISK drive [ 32.298153] hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 4 [ 32.299230] ide0 at 0xf1014000-0xf1014007,0xf1014160 on irq 19 [ 33.318132] ide1: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-3 controller, bus ID 0, irq 20 [ 33.318153] Probing IDE interface ide1... [ 33.718327] hdc: MATSHITADVD-RAM LF-D211A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [ 34.054132] hdc: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 [ 34.055164] ide1 at 0xf1016000-0xf1016007,0xf1016160 on irq 20 [ 35.074119] ide2: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-3 controller, bus ID 1, irq 21 [ 35.074139] Probing IDE interface ide2... [ 35.642441] PowerMac i2c bus pmu 2 registered [ 35.642591] PowerMac i2c bus pmu 1 registered [ 35.642734] PowerMac i2c bus mac-io 0 registered [ 35.642878] PowerMac i2c bus uni-n 1 registered [ 35.643017] PowerMac i2c bus uni-n 0 registered [ 35.643319] TCP bic registered [ 35.643345] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 35.643365] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [ 35.643373] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [ 35.643546] Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k init [ 36.970119] Capability LSM initialized [ 38.674524] hda: max request size: 128KiB [ 38.708731] hdc: ATAPI DVD-ROM DVD-RAM drive, 1024kB Cache, (U)DMA [ 38.708761] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 38.708817] hda: 40088160 sectors (20525 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=39770/16/63, UDMA(66) [ 38.708837] hda: cache flushes not supported [ 38.708966] hda:<6>usbcore: registered new driver usbfs [ 38.748609] usbcore: registered new driver hub [ 38.752261] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) [ 38.752373] PCI: Enabling device 0001:11:08.0 (0000 -> 0002) [ 38.752411] ohci_hcd 0001:11:08.0: OHCI Host Controller [ 38.752743] ohci_hcd 0001:11:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [ 38.752793] ohci_hcd 0001:11:08.0: irq 27, io mem 0x80082000 [ 38.777524] [mac] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 [ 38.930507] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 38.931026] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 38.931062] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 39.034855] PCI: Enabling device 0001:11:09.0 (0000 -> 0002) [ 39.034897] ohci_hcd 0001:11:09.0: OHCI Host Controller [ 39.035436] ohci_hcd 0001:11:09.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 [ 39.035494] ohci_hcd 0001:11:09.0: irq 28, io mem 0x80081000 [ 39.110143] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 39.110661] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 39.110691] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 39.346101] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 [ 39.425802] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' [ 39.434032] PCI: Enabling device 0001:11:0a.0 (0010 -> 0012) [ 39.483751] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[63] MMIO=[80080000-800807ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8] [ 39.550716] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 39.552585] hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found [ 39.554487] hub 1-2:1.0: 3 ports detected [ 39.870537] usb 1-2.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 [ 39.976690] usb 1-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 39.978595] hub 1-2.2:1.0: USB hub found [ 39.980511] hub 1-2.2:1.0: 3 ports detected [ 39.992370] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 39.992438] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 40.298498] usb 1-2.3: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 [ 40.408663] usb 1-2.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 40.618498] usb 1-2.2.1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5 [ 40.724665] usb 1-2.2.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 40.758716] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[003065fffed4b2c0] [ 40.930516] usb 1-2.2.2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6 [ 41.040700] usb 1-2.2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 54.686054] pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) [ 54.686208] pmac_zilog: i2c-modem detected, id: 1 [ 54.686289] ttyS0 at MMIO 0x80013020 (irq = 22) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Internal modem [ 54.686811] ttyS1 at MMIO 0x80013000 (irq = 50) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port [ 54.746874] sungem.c:v0.98 8/24/03 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) [ 54.789889] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones [ 54.809703] agpgart: Detected Apple UniNorth chipset [ 54.809829] agpgart: configuring for size idx: 4 [ 54.809899] agpgart: AGP aperture is 16M @ 0x0 [ 54.816456] PHY ID: 206047, addr: 0 [ 54.817656] eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:30:65:d4:b2:c0 [ 54.817678] eth0: Found BCM5400 PHY [ 54.828151] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output [ 57.038045] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev [ 57.216153] eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full-duplex. [ 57.216173] eth0: Pause is disabled [ 58.084510] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 60.096312] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 60.096616] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions [ 60.097078] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 67.046869] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: usb_submit_urb(ctrl) failed [ 67.046905] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: timeout initializing reports [ 67.047685] hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [LG Electronics Inc. USB Monitor] on usb-0001:11:08.0-2.3 [ 67.052636] input: Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard as /class/input/input1 [ 67.053203] input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard] on usb-0001:11:08.0-2.2.1 [ 67.061478] input: Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard as /class/input/input2 [ 67.062030] input: USB HID v1.10 Device [Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard] on usb-0001:11:08.0-2.2.1 [ 67.068459] input: Fujitsu Takamisawa Component Apple Optical USB Mouse as /class/input/input3 [ 67.070063] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Fujitsu Takamisawa Component Apple Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0001:11:08.0-2.2.2 [ 67.070104] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid [ 67.070117] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver [ 69.834967] input: PowerMac Beep as /class/input/input4 [ 69.931516] apm_emu: APM Emulation 0.5 initialized. [ 70.142765] SCSI subsystem initialized [ 70.182260] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1) [ 70.182276] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance [ 70.543828] Adding 850680k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/80c6cf54-518a-48a8-834d-e48d48b44bc7. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:850680k [ 70.715009] EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal [ 70.849887] eth0: no IPv6 routers present [ 87.880881] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 88.151914] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 89.607750] [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102 [ 89.708462] [drm] Initialized r128 2.5.0 20030725 on minor 0 [ 89.711169] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:0b.0 into 1x mode [ 89.711196] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:10.0 into 1x mode [ 102.982347] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8 [ 102.982372] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 102.982380] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 102.982431] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 103.044651] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8 [ 103.044672] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 103.057098] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 103.057157] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 103.057164] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7 [ 298.273644] UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'Untitled CD', timestamp 2006/11/10 14:36 (103c) [ 333.092352] hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [ 333.092382] hdc: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 } [ 333.092395] ide: failed opcode was: unknown [ 333.092406] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 288 [ 333.092420] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 72 [ 333.092433] lost page write due to I/O error on hdc -- blender crashes, then Xorg crashes https://launchpad.net/bugs/69762 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs