Bug 508430

Summary: Openoffice.org Writer Crashes X upon start-up
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: William Emmanuel S. Yu <wyu>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 11CC: caolanm, mcepl, xgl-maint
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Hardware: i586   
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This is the current X logs where ooffice writer crashes
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This is the logs of the last working X session
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nothing special about mine, just default config
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strace log after running just swriter none

Description William Emmanuel S. Yu 2009-06-27 05:45:02 UTC
Created attachment 349628 [details]
This is the current X logs where ooffice writer crashes

Description of problem:

Upon loading Openoffice.org 3.1 writer in Fedora 11. It crashes the entire X windows sub-system. I have a Dell 420 with a fresh install of Fedora 11 and Openoffice.org writer starts up properly. After a 'yum update', the Writer crashes on start-up. Only Writer. This does not apply to Calc and Impress. I looked into the Xorg logs and found out that this only occurred after X.org loads RANDR by default. But I can't find a way to disable RANDR.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Laptop: Dell Latitude D420
VGA Card: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586
openoffice.org-writer-3.1.0-11.3.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.2-8.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-sisusb-0.9.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-trident-1.3.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.2.1-3.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.3.0-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-s3virge-1.10.2-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-apm-1.2.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-geode-2.11.2-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.2.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.10-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-10.16.0-3.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.3.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-utils-7.4-4.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1.901-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen-1.3.0-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-v4l-0.2.0-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-tdfx-1.4.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.4-14.fc11.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.0-4.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.2.0-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drivers-7.3-11.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-void-1.2.0-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-apps-7.3-8.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-7.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-rendition-4.2.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.2.0-6.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-i740-1.2.0-3.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-glint-1.2.2-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.4.0-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion-1.7.0-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-14.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-36.20090514git9656762.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-ast-0.87.0-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.4.0-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-server-common-1.6.1.901-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-8.fc11.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-r128-6.8.0-3.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-mach64-6.8.0-3.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.3.0-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.2.0-3.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.6.4-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-7.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.903-10.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.10.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-filesystem-7.3-4.fc11.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.2.1-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.7.0-7.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.2.1-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-neomagic-1.2.2-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.1.0-7.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-i128-1.3.0-2.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.9-7.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.2-6.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.3.2-3.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.13-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-drv-elographics-1.2.3-2.fc11.i586

How reproducible:

This problem occurs every time I start openoffice.org writer. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 11 on a Dell D420
2. Do a 'yum update'
3. Start openoffice.org writer
  
Actual results:

After running "ooffice -writer &>output.log". The only line in output.log is "X IO Error".

Expected results:

ooffice should not crash.

Additional info:

After doing a bit of reading people (in the Ubuntu camp) suggest disabling RANDR, I can't seem to find a way to do that. This is documented in Bug 281651 but it does not have a resolution.

Comment 1 William Emmanuel S. Yu 2009-06-27 05:45:48 UTC
Created attachment 349629 [details]
This is the logs of the last working X session

Comment 2 Caolan McNamara 2009-06-27 08:37:48 UTC
This is an X crash rather than an OOo crash, so moving there.

As an side though, I appear to have the same intel chipset as in this report, and OOo definitely doesn'y take out the session for me.

[caolan@Vain ~]$ lspci|grep 945GM
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Comment 3 William Emmanuel S. Yu 2009-06-27 09:39:10 UTC
Sounds promising. Are you using FC11 with all the latest updates? 

Can you look at your Xorg.0.log and see if RANDR is loaded? That is the major difference between my working and non-working systems.

Comment 4 Caolan McNamara 2009-06-27 11:18:33 UTC
Created attachment 349653 [details]
nothing special about mine, just default config

Comment 5 William Emmanuel S. Yu 2009-06-27 12:38:53 UTC
Major differences:
- I have my /home encrypted using LUKS
- I have SELinux on
- We have different vendor specific blocks with errors

Mine:
> (WW) intel(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
> (II) intel(0):  FF744^C121W1
> (II) intel(0):  .?O^^?<B0><DF><FF>^A^A

Yours:
> (WW) intel(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
> (II) intel(0):  FF744^C121W1
> (II) intel(0):  .?O^^?<B0><DF><FF>^A^A

Do these things matter?

Btw, only swriter crashes. What does swriter do on start-up that calc and impress don't do?

Comment 6 William Emmanuel S. Yu 2009-06-27 12:59:24 UTC
Sorry your should be:
(WW) intel(0): Unknown vendor-specific block 0
(II) intel(0):  TM111<A1>121EW3D
(II) intel(0):  *9EPp<90><B0><FF>^A^A

Not sure it matters.

Comment 7 William Emmanuel S. Yu 2009-06-28 00:27:18 UTC
Created attachment 349682 [details]
strace log after running just swriter

Here is an strace log I generated using the following command below:

strace /usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/swriter.bin &> output.org

I can't make heads or tails of it. I also made an additional discovery. Not only does this bug occur when openoffice.org writer is started. This also occurs everytime I click on the File menu option.

Thanks.

Comment 8 Matěj Cepl 2009-06-29 14:53:37 UTC
Just to lift up the backtrace:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x812d07b]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x9e) [0x80c061e]
2: [0x113400]
3: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 [0x9b47ff]
4: /lib/libdl.so.2 [0xb61cc4]
5: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 [0x9ae806]
6: /lib/libdl.so.2 [0xb6202c]
7: /lib/libdl.so.2(dlclose+0x2a) [0xb61cfa]
8: /usr/bin/Xorg(LoaderUnload+0x8f) [0x80a9f1f]
9: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x80aa4a7]
10: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86DeleteDriver+0x4c) [0x80cd46c]
11: /usr/bin/Xorg(InitOutput+0xf05) [0x80a9855]
12: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x1cb) [0x806b92b]
13: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x9d9a66]
14: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x806afa1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Comment 9 William Emmanuel S. Yu 2009-06-29 18:03:45 UTC
I found a solution. I am not very happy with it as I don't know why it now works. But I re-installed Fedora 11 from scratch and it now works. And yes I have RANDR enabled in my X.org. 

Maybe my FC10 to FC11 upgrade left some hidden Intel driver stuff?

Comment 10 Matěj Cepl 2009-11-05 18:33:12 UTC
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command

yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing'

Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD .

Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]

Comment 11 Matěj Cepl 2010-02-26 12:25:04 UTC
Could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[Note please, that this is machine generated comment for large amount of bugs; due to some technical issues, it is possible we've missed some of the responses -- it is happens, please, just a make a comment about that; that we will see. Thank you]

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