Bug 768143
| Summary: | Memory corruption crashers with Fedora 16 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Component: | gnome-shell | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | 98036119lmak, barnsls, browning48ky, bugzilla, colton, david.milet, david.utidjian, emanmc, fedora.9076, fredericg_99, fzipp, ioanbsu1, kirk, kschueff.t, kubrick, kurei_mask, logrise, maxamillion, mikeg2004, neopium, otaylor, redhat, rtmetz92, samkraju, walters, wraith2k82 |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-02-13 20:13:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Owen Taylor
2011-12-15 21:15:00 UTC
*** Bug 756593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 757304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 766319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 766310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 766307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 766245 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 766151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 766142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 766065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 766061 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 760919 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 760829 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 760827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 760824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 760822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 760821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 767514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 760819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Removing all cc's to cut down on unwanted spam, still quite a few more duplicates to mark *** Bug 768115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 759852 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 759771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 759691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 759690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 759511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 759288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 759151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 759060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 758970 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 758764 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 758758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 758592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 758146 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 757562 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** [ Removing automatically added cc's again to cut down on spam ] Bug 757560 contains some very interesting comments: Seems to happen randomly when using the mouse to switch to the activities screen (pointer to top left of screen). Started happening after I installed the AMD Catalyst driver, but that could be a coincidence. Steve Barnsley 2011-11-29 10:55:40 EST The problem seems to occur when running KDE applications, specifically kate but maybe others also, under gnome shell. The shell keeps crashing, the display flickers when switching windows and the screen doesn't paint correctly (partial windows) when returning from the activities view. [reply] [-] Private Comment 9 Steve Barnsley 2011-11-29 11:58:26 EST The problem is caused by having the kwalletmanager icon in the notification area. If the icon is present the whole window/screen management of the shell goes to hell and the shell periodically crashes. Close the kwalletmanager icon and everything runs as smooth as silk. I'd be quite interested if this correlates with usage of the Catalyst drivers and/or icons in the notification area for other people. (I'm not sure that all of the crashes I've dup'ed here are the same bug, but I'm pretty sure the majority of them are the same thing - it's a set of crashes in similar places when repainting the screen.) *** Bug 757560 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 757283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This happens on a fresh install. dont know about kwallet, but I am using ati catalyst drivers for a Radeon 6520g. Pretty sure this is the same as bug 702257, but not duplicating one with the other for the moment. Maybe this is useful, I had read about the graphics being choppy and suggested to add "export CLUTTER_VBLANK=none: to my ~/.bashrc file. It made things faster and (so far) no crashes. > [reply] [-]
> Private
> Comment 9 Steve Barnsley 2011-11-29 11:58:26 EST
>
> I'd be quite interested if this correlates with usage of the Catalyst drivers
> and/or icons in the notification area for other people. (I'm not sure that all
> of the crashes I've dup'ed here are the same bug, but I'm pretty sure the
> majority of them are the same thing - it's a set of crashes in similar places
> when repainting the screen.)
I have the exact same problem: gnome-shell crashes randomly.
I have installed ATI Catalyst drivers (I have an ATI HD 6750M on a MacBook Pro from early 2011).
I noticed a pattern in the crashes: it most of the time happens when I go to the activities panel (with the mouse or the super key), when I receive a notification or with Eclipse. When using Eclipse I try to commit my code with SVN, it makes a window come out of the Eclipse title bar (asking me commit comments and to select what files to commit). The appearance of this window makes gnome-shell crash 50% of the time.
My guess is that this is linked to transparency effects or shadow effects... but thats a blind guess: I'm no expert in the domain.
About neopium's comment. See launchpad bug here : https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/889706 comment #236 (by me) describes the exact same thing I think. However, I don't think this is the right place to talk about this bug, since I don't think it is related to any memory corruption. And by the way, could someone tell me why the following bugs are set as duplicates of this one? Sorry, but I don't see anything related to memory corruption there : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759511 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760822 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757304 This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |