Bug 1565402

Summary: Xorg server aborts when composite extension is disabled
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Felix Miata <mrmazda>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 28CC: ajax, alexl, bskeggs, caillon+fedoraproject, jglisse, john.j5live, mrmazda, ofourdan, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, xgl-maint
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URL: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1079607
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Last Closed: 2019-03-11 21:58:05 UTC Type: Bug
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F28 coredump from running 4.16.6 kernel and Xorg server 1.19.6-8 none

Description Felix Miata 2018-04-10 00:40:10 UTC 
Xorg server aborts when composite extension is disabled

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Put the following somewhere in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/:
 	Section "Extensions"
	        Option          "Composite" "Disable"
	EndSection
2.Try to run Xorg

Actual results:
Xorg crashes

Expected results:
Xorg does not crash
Comment 1 Felix Miata 2018-04-25 02:02:47 UTC 
Upstream bug was marked fixed several days ago, long after "last updated" 2018-04-09 20:40 EDT and F28's server 1.19.6-7 was posted to mirrors on 12 April, so crashing remains.
Comment 2 Felix Miata 2018-05-06 04:25:12 UTC 
Created attachment 1432226 [details]
F28 coredump from running 4.16.6 kernel and Xorg server 1.19.6-8
Comment 3 Felix Miata 2018-06-16 04:15:38 UTC 
27 used to be OK, but not for several months, same as 28.
Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2018-06-18 15:57:30 UTC 
xorg-x11 hasn't been a real component since like FC4.

Why do you think disabling Composite is a thing you need to do?
Comment 5 Felix Miata 2018-06-18 17:32:43 UTC 
Personal computing devices are expected to be personalized. Motion and fuzziness that KDE developers and others seem to think are cool or enhancements are annoying, often detracting from usability or accessibility. It seems like a waste to permit resources to be consumed by them. Shutting them off globally seems the most efficient way to eradicate them.
Comment 6 Felix Miata 2018-08-20 09:22:04 UTC 
Server 1.20.1 in F29 works as expected.
Comment 7 Felix Miata 2019-03-11 21:58:05 UTC 
This is gone in F29 and F30.