Bug 1019940 - RadeonSI: System freeze when moving spreadsheet tab in LibreOffice CALC
Summary: RadeonSI: System freeze when moving spreadsheet tab in LibreOffice CALC
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-16 16:27 UTC by Jochen Meissner
Modified: 2015-02-17 17:42 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1043209 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 17:42:52 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jochen Meissner 2013-10-16 16:27:56 UTC
Description of problem:  While working in Calc.  Click on tab of current spreadsheet to move it to a different position.  System freezes. Mouse still moves, but no action possible.  Had to power down and restart.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Version: 4.1.2.3
Build ID: 4.1.2.3-3.fc19

How reproducible:
Appears to be reproducible.  Happened twice in a row to me.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Eike Rathke 2013-10-17 10:59:52 UTC
Sounds more like an X or Window manager problem if the entire GUI appears to freeze. An application shouldn't be able to do that. Is it really reproducible, always, or always only with a specific document?

Comment 2 Jochen Meissner 2013-10-17 17:51:20 UTC
I tested it with an empty new spreadsheet, added a tab and then moved it.  Same thing. The little tab symbol attaches to the mouse cursor and that is the end of the story.  Mouse still moves but you cannot "click" the tab in a new place.

I wonder if this could be related to Bug 983834.  (No real insights though, I am just a simple Linux user who gave up on Windows a dew years ago.)

I will also upload a video taken with my phone (all else failed since I needed to shut PC off)

Comment 3 Jochen Meissner 2013-10-17 17:54:52 UTC
I tested it with an empty new spreadsheet, added a tab and then moved it.  Same thing. The little tab symbol attaches to the mouse cursor and that is the end of the story.  Mouse still moves but you cannot "click" the tab in a new place.

I wonder if this could be related to Bug 983834.  (No real insights though, I am just a simple Linux user who gave up on Windows a dew years ago.)

I also uploaded a video taken with my phone (all else failed since I needed to shut PC off) to a public dropbox folder: 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16233879/20131017_124716.mp4

Comment 4 Damien Sticklen 2013-11-17 13:34:11 UTC
I tested this same problem on Fedora 19 and 20 Rawhide with HD7870 running RadeonSI driver and could replicate the OP comment.  I note that calc is slower to start than usual as well.

I then tested under Fedora 19 with AMD Catalyst (proprietary) driver and note that start times for calc improved along with tab manipulation.  I think that in my case, something is amiss with the RadeonSI drivers as I have been able to replicate this to other distros with the RadeonSI driver.

Comment 5 Damien Sticklen 2013-12-01 06:51:28 UTC
As at 1 December, after a full update on Fedora 20 Rawhide (amd64 architecture), this problem remains.

Probably could do with a way-ahead from the assigned developer since release is not far away.

- Damien

Comment 6 David Mansfield 2013-12-05 21:15:14 UTC
My colleague is also having severe problems with libreoffice and radeonsi.

- Covering part of a sheet and exposing it can take 10-20 seconds to "repaint".  

- calc takes many times as long to open as it should.

Booting with module.blacklist=radeon on the kernel cmd line makes the problems go away, but the dual monitors are stuck in "mirror" mode so it's not a viable workaround.

Also found: in gnome settings panel, some panels show black areas instead of background & title bar.

Chipset is (from Xorg.0.log):

[    37.632] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "VERDE" (ChipID = 0x683d)

Willing to do any experimenting to get to the bottom of this.

Comment 7 David Mansfield 2013-12-05 21:24:29 UTC
And I can confirm what was stated in comment#4: all problems disappear using catalyst driver.

see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fglrx

Comment 8 Damien Sticklen 2013-12-07 00:44:59 UTC
I see no such resolution by adding module.blacklist=radeon on the kernel cmd line.  I suspect David Mansfield had the fglrx driver also installed, thereby having using the fglrx driver once the module.blacklist=radeon  option had been executed.

Comment 9 David Mansfield 2013-12-09 20:55:52 UTC
I mistyped it, actually.  It's modprobe.blacklist=radeon  Sorry.

fglrx was 100% for sure not installed at the time. 

FYI Blacklisting radeon had 3 effects:

1) blue one-line progress bar in text mode during boot (if you don't see this, it didn't get blacklisted)

2) no dual head support

3) no slowness problems in oocalc or graphical articfacts in control center

Comment 10 Damien Sticklen 2013-12-11 04:21:47 UTC
David,

Thanks for the update; I will take a look at this later today.

Did you find that you get the correct native resolution for the monitor?

Can you give the result of (as a normal user in X):

glxinfo |grep -i opengl

Comment 11 Damien Sticklen 2013-12-11 10:50:31 UTC
I have done this myself and found: 

glxinfo |grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.3, 256 bits)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.4
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL extensions:

Also, latency has gone with Calc, but at the expense of hardware accelerated 3D rendering as indicated above by llvmpipe which is the just in time software renderer.

Comment 12 Damien Sticklen 2013-12-11 10:51:30 UTC
Also note with the above workaround, that kernel modesetting is unavailable.

Comment 13 Damien Sticklen 2013-12-14 23:47:32 UTC
I would like to clone this bug for Fedora 20.  Any advice?  I have seen the clone link.  However, the response is that I need to select a classification.

Comment 14 carlos.rca185 2014-01-13 19:47:04 UTC
I have also this problem (or a very similar problem) in Fedora 20 KDE with kernel 3.12.7 in a computer with Intel HD4000.

But for me it isn't necessary pressing the power button for reboot, I can switch to tty and only waiting a minute or two the system returns to normal.

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