Bug#608162: metacity: Enabling compositing causes several applications to crash X server

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 608162 xserver-xorg-video-intel
thanks

Hi,

Le lundi 27 décembre 2010 à 21:17 -0500, Jeremy Salwen a écrit :
> After enabling compositing in metacity (by using gconf-editor), the X server
> will repeatedly crash when I start up certain applications.

Thanks for your report. Please always report crashes against the package
containing the program that crashes. In this case, the X server.

> Compositing will work when enabled, and for some applications it seems fine.
> However, it will crash the X server when some applications are started.
> Quadrapassel and glxgears will crash the X server immediately.  Chromium-
> browser will first open up a window, but then crash within half a second while
> it appears to be attempting to resize itself.  All of these work fine when
> compositing is not enabled.

So it crashes as soon as it uses 3D. As a reminder for X maintainers:
metacity uses RENDER compositing, not 3D. It’s never been a furiously
fast compositor, but it usually works fine, especially on Intel which
has the best 2D acceleration out there.

> I get a backtrace from the X server, which I will try to attach.  I installed
> the xserver-xorg-core-dbg, as well as a libmesa-dri (or something like that)
> dbg package, but the backtraces I'm getting still don't list function names.

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