Bug 1275215

Summary: crash when plugging a monitor
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Rui Matos <rmatos>
Component: mutterAssignee: Rui Matos <rmatos>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.2CC: lmiksik, mdomonko, tpelka
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Fixed In Version: mutter-3.14.4-17.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-11-19 07:21:37 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1219476, 1275651    

Description Rui Matos 2015-10-26 09:47:21 UTC
With the latest 7.2 packages, mutter sometimes crashes when plugging in monitors:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
meta_monitor_manager_xrandr_read_current (manager=manager@entry=0x17332a0) at backends/x11/meta-monitor-manager-xrandr.c:612
612		  meta_output->preferred_mode = meta_output->modes[0];
(gdb) bt
#0  meta_monitor_manager_xrandr_read_current (manager=manager@entry=0x17332a0) at backends/x11/meta-monitor-manager-xrandr.c:612
#1  0x00007fe870f2dc73 in meta_monitor_manager_xrandr_handle_xevent (manager_xrandr=0x17332a0, event=0x7ffcbf492c10)
    at backends/x11/meta-monitor-manager-xrandr.c:1157
#2  0x00007fe870f2b483 in x_event_source_dispatch (source=<optimized out>, callback=<optimized out>, user_data=<optimized out>)
    at backends/x11/meta-backend-x11.c:212
#3  0x00007fe86cb3879a in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00007fe86cb38ae8 in g_main_context_iterate.isra.24 () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00007fe86cb38dba in g_main_loop_run () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00007fe870f52bc8 in meta_run () at core/main.c:473
#7  0x0000000000402455 in main ()


There are two related bugs filed upstream about this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756796
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756660

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 07:21:37 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2216.html