From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Running Blender 2.36 in both static and non static version, regardless of X harware acceleration (dri on/off) on Fedora Core 3 is not possible due to crashes. The same was not happening on Fedora Core 2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 6.8.1-12.FC3.21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download Blender from blender site both static and non static version 2. Download demo_loop.zip file from blender site 3. expand blender in two diferent directories using tar -zxvf 4. expand demo_loop.zip into a directory of your choice 5. Run blender 6. open file airship_Penner.blend (should be in demos directory if you did right on point 4. 7. Blender crashes after a short while, as long as auto rendering of animation begins Actual Results: Blender crashes when using both blender version (static no HW-OpenGL) and non static (HW-OpenGl) Expected Results: As in Fedora Core 2, all works like a charm. Animation is rendered and automatically it moves to the next file and so on. Additional info: The HW : P4HT 2.6Ghz, 512MB Ram, ATI Radeon 9200 128MB RAM. Working FC2 Setup : Kernel 2.6.10-1.9_FC2smp xorg-x11-xfs-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-xauth-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-tools-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-libs-data-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-font-utils-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-twm-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-xdm-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-base-fonts-6.7.0-2 xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-2 FC3 Setup : Kernel : kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.741_FC3.i686.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-tools-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
Is there anything in dmesg?
> 7. Blender crashes after a short while, as long as auto rendering of > animation begins If Blender itself is crashing, then the problem is most likely a bug in Blender itself, or a bug in libraries that Blender links to. You will need to file a Blender bug report to the authors of Blender, indicating the details of your problem, etc. and they will then be able to investigate the problem and debug their source code. If they determine the problem is a bug in an X11 library which is included in the X.Org X11 distribution, then a bug report should be filed in the X.Org bugzilla. http://bugs.freedesktop.org "xorg" component. If the problem is in Blender itself, then they will probably address the issue in a future release of Blender. If the problem turns out to be a legitimate bug in X.Org libraries, once X.Org developers investigate the issue, it will probably be fixed in a future X.Org release. Once you've filed your bug report to Blender and/or X.Org, you can paste the bug report URLs here and we will periodically review them. If X.Org developers determine there is a flaw in X.Org causing this issue, and produce a patch to fix it, we will then review the patch for consideration in future Fedora Core xorg-x11 builds. Hope this helps.
Setting status to "NEEDINFO" and awaiting upstream bug report URL's for tracking purposes.
Hi. I will look at dmesg and do as instructed. Is there any other log that can be useful to look at? - How can I completely disable HW GL acceleration apart from removing dri from xorg.conf? - Best Regards - Paolo
Hi. Dmesg reports nothing Launching Blender in a terminal window I can see the exit message as 'segfault'. Opened bug# 2170 on blender bugtracker. - regards - Paolo
Please provide the full http URL to the blender bug report, as the above link points to Red Hat bugzilla.
Hi Blender works fine if variable SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dma is set prior to blender launch. This was not necessary in FC2. So it seems is DMA and audio... new link : http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=231&aid=2170&group_id=9 Hope it helps - Best Regards - Paolo
From the best I can tell from this bug report, it is "blender" that is crashing, and NOT the X server. And this is somehow related to how SDL audio is configured. This sounds more like a kernel driver issue, or a bug in SDL itself, and increasingly does not sound at all like an Xorg bug/problem. Reassigning to SDL component, to see if the sdl package maintainer is familiar with this issue. If it isn't an sdl issue, I'd recommend reassigning it to the kernel component.
Thanks for your time I appreciate that. - Regards - Paolo
Can you please have a look at the latest FC-4 update package of SDL (1.2.8-4)? This version is using alsa output as default. Is it solving your problems for FC-3, too?
Closing due to lack of response by reporter. Note that FC3 is now the responsibility of Fedora Legacy, and this does not appear to be a security bug. If the bug persists in FC4 or FC5, please reopen it.