Description of problem: The X server crashes and/or hangs with certain screensavers. This was discussed in the mailing list as "Monitor disconnects" a few weeks ago and I have been tracking down the problem as best I could for a while. The problems is that on X86_64 (intel) hardware, the system will crash the X server or hang the X server depending on what screensaver module is used. The interaction includes the power manager in the mix. If the power manager is set to off, hangs/crashes don't occur; if the screensaver is set to a particular module, then crashes or hangs occur after the power manager blanks the screen. For example, the "Ant Inspect" screensave module causes a crash in X; the "Apple II" screensave module causes a hang (requiring external intervention to recover without rebooting.) Most of the screensaver modules I tried work ok. If the screensavers are randomized, the crashes and hangs are randomized as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. power management to 1 hour monitor shutoff 2. gnome-screensaver to "Ant Inspect" or "Apple II" 3. wait Actual results: hang (Apple II) or crash (Ant Inspect) Expected results: no hang or crash Additional info: smolt ID of hardware: pub_79ed1e10-4a39-4816-9932-bb508f85db99 ABRT gets an X crash but does nothing useable with it. -------------------------------- extract from /var/log/messages --------------- Jun 7 19:13:43 wolves abrt[19158]: saved core dump of pid 5179 (/usr/bin/Xorg) to /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1275952420-5179.new/coredump (61067264 bytes) Jun 7 19:13:43 wolves abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-1275952420-5179' creation detected Jun 7 19:13:43 wolves gnome-keyring-daemon[5264]: dbus failure unregistering from session: Connection is closed Jun 7 19:13:43 wolves gnome-keyring-daemon[5264]: dbus failure unregistering from session: Connection is closed Jun 7 19:13:43 wolves abrtd: Crash is in database already (dup of /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1275556778-2145) Jun 7 19:13:43 wolves abrtd: Deleting crash ccpp-1275952420-5179 (dup of ccpp-1275556778-2145), sending dbus signal Jun 7 19:13:43 wolves bonobo-activation-server (ggw-19165): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-ypEuM5OlfB: Connection refused Jun 7 19:13:45 wolves gdm-simple-greeter[19215]: Gtk-WARNING: gtkwidget.c:5643: widget not within a GtkWindow Jun 7 19:13:45 wolves gdm-simple-greeter[19215]: Gtk-WARNING: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width 264 and height -1 -------------------------------- Looking at abrt shows no X crashes to report.
I posted the original "Monitor disconnects" message on the Fedora Users list. See http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374270.html I use KDE (F13 x86_64) rather than Gnome. I've turned off screen saving and haven't seen the problem since.
I have had this problem since Fedora 12 on all machines with Intel graphics and it persists to this day. Any OpenGL screensaver will potentially result in a crash in the X display driver and then take the X session with it. GDM will restart X and am prompted to log in. When I use "blank screen" this error does not occur. I have not experimented with too many other screensavers, but all that use OpenGL will cause this failure. When using identical settings with a machine configured with nVidia graphics and using the nVidia binary-only driver, all works normally as expected and without failure.
Additional note: I use x86_64 and GNOME.
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I support the closing of this bug. I have been running F14 on my Alienware M11Xr2 which uses only the Intel video at the moment and have not seen the screensaver problem for a very long time... a very long time. Whatever the issue was, it seems to be fixed. Whether it was fixed in the screensaver code or in the Intel driver, I will probably never know. But the problem has been long gone for a while now.
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