Description of problem: When Skype is started X crashes and user is logged out Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.6-6.fc9 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start skype 2. 3. Actual results: X crashes Expected results: Skype starts Additional info: It was running fine until two days ago, skype is running with nv driver...GoogleEarth is fine!!! Until two days ago Skype was o.k. and GoogleEarth crashed X. If I switch to nv driver Skype works but Googleearth crashes X.
Forgot to say in the report that driver is nouveau
I feel skeptical -- unless you show me useful stacktrace (i.e., it has to be from open-source application, because otherwise you won't create useful stacktrace), I will be suspicious that it is bug in skype. Anyway, please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. However, unless I see something obvious in the log, I will be suspicious about skype, so proving that some open-source app crashes as well would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 292819 [details] log of a crash I booted at runlevel=3 then I logged in as user, then I issued startx>crash.txt 1>&2 and then I started Skype. I do not know if any useful can be found in it. What surprises me that with nv driver is working bit not with nouveau. Other attachements will follow
Created attachment 292821 [details] my xorg.conf file
Created attachment 292824 [details] Xorg.0.log file
(In reply to comment #3) > What surprises me that with nv driver is working bit not with nouveau. That's very simple -- although I have unending respect for nouveau developers, their driver is just not there YET in terms of stability and maturity. Actually, I don't see any backtrace from X in the log. What EXACTLY happens, when you run command skype in the gnome-terminal (or whatever is your console emulator in X)? Something like (this is just an example to show how detailed I wont the description to be): - ten seconds nothing, skype is starting, - panel flashes three times, - everything evaporates from the screen except for background, - screen is black, mouse is moving, but even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't help to make X working again. Putting this bug into NEEDINFO
BTW, if X gets to unusable state, you may investigate further your computer using ssh from other computer. In such case, it would be interesting to see, whether X actually crashed (i.e., pgrep -f -l Xorg gives no output), or if it is running whether it takes almost all CPU of the computer (run top and take a look at the top process to find out).
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #3) > > What surprises me that with nv driver is working bit not with nouveau. > > That's very simple -- although I have unending respect for nouveau developers, > their driver is just not there YET in terms of stability and maturity. When I say surprised I do not blame nouveau developers, as I find good performance but I mean that something strange has happened during some driver upgrade, but I am not sure as for some time I didn't run Skype on that machine as I usually a wireless Skype phone....Skype was working with nouveau, then it started breaking X > > Actually, I don't see any backtrace from X in the log. What EXACTLY happens, > when you run command > > skype > > in the gnome-terminal (or whatever is your console emulator in X)? > > Something like (this is just an example to show how detailed I wont the > description to be): > > - ten seconds nothing, skype is starting, > - panel flashes three times, > - everything evaporates from the screen except for background, > - screen is black, mouse is moving, but even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't help to > make X working again. > > Putting this bug into NEEDINFO No difference if I start Skype from the menu or from a terminal: 1)skype starts with the initial window calling for username and password 2) when I click on o.k. after a very short period a blank screen appears, then I get the login screen of Fedora calling for username and password I do not if that is correlated, but after this kind of crash when I stop the machine I get a blurred screen orange coloured and not a single line of closing procedure...
OK, putting this bug officially on probation -- unless you will show me in a month useful backtrace from some open source application which crashes you X, I will blame Skype and close this bug as CANTFIX.
Doing as promised.
can be related to bug in Xserver. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505839 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505823