Bug 587763

Summary: Segfault in glXChooseVisual (fglrx)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Arthur Enright <aenright>
Component: desktop-effectsAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 6.0CC: rdoty
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Arthur Enright 2010-04-30 19:57:41 UTC 
abrt 1.0.7 detected a crash.

architecture: i686
Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: desktop-effects
comment: Installed AMD/ATI Binary Drivers 10-4. Configure single desktop spanned across 2 monitors useing amdcccle. Try to run desktop-effects either from the gnome menu or from command line.
component: desktop-effects
executable: /usr/bin/desktop-effects
kernel: 2.6.32-19.el6.i686
package: desktop-effects-0.8.4-2.1.el6
rating: 1
reason: Process /usr/bin/desktop-effects was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 6.0 Beta (Santiago)

How to reproduce
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1. Install AMD/ATI Binary Driver (10-4)
2. Configure single desktop spanned across 2 monitors using amdcccle tool
3. Try to run desktop-effects either from the gnome menu or from command line.
Comment 1 Arthur Enright 2010-04-30 19:57:43 UTC 
Created attachment 410588 [details]
File: backtrace
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-04-30 20:57:50 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2010-06-23 02:17:20 UTC 
Same as fedora bug 566971
Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2010-06-23 17:41:18 UTC 
This is a crash inside the AMD Catalyst drivers; it might be related to the specific code in the desktop-effects tool but the code is working fine with other drivers; more likely it's a general crash on the affected system for any OpenGL program. desktop-effects has a very small usage of OpenGL - it just creates a GL context, queries information about available strings and then closes everything.

There's not much we can do to debug it since the crash is inside fglrx.

(There's a small chance it's related to bug 574500. The Catalyst drivers might not handle the case where we try to create a GL context after a failing call to XCreateWindow, and might segfault instead of correctly relaying the X error. I don't, however, think that's very likely.)
Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2010-06-23 17:54:50 UTC 
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.