I have an idea why this may be occurring and it might be related to a problem I get with audio in ubuntu 8.10.
First the problem that I get with audio is when multiple applications try to use audio, one after the other, or at the same time they more often than not get locked in a futex_wait and freeze. The only way for me to fix this problem is to kill (not end because that doesn't work) all of the processes that are in the futex_wait. Then I can restart the application I want to listen to audio on and it will work until the problem occurs again and I have to redo the process. An example of this is if I watch something on youtube (firefox) then play a song using Amarok then watch something on youtube, firefox will freeze up and be in a futex_wait state. And if I try to then play a song with Amarok it will freeze and be in a futex_wait. I have to kill all the processes that in a futex_wait before I can use one of them to listen to audio. But the reason this may relate to my problem of the display manager crashing is because my screen saver is a 3d screen saver and for some reason 3d application make noise (use the audio driver). So what I'm guessing is gdm gets into a futex_wait which causes a freeze/crash because the 3d screen saver is making noise (using the audio driver). So I guess there are two problems here: 1. The problem with when multiple application use audio the applications end up in the futex_wait state and freeze. 2. The problem that 3d applications make noise (use the audio drivers) when they are no suppose to. -- x11 crashes durring screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308267 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
