Visible Xvideo apps crash during vty switch

Bug #486822 reported by Jasa Bartelj
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

Whenever I switch away from and back to the vty showing a video with Xvideo that app crashes. If the app is minimised then the playback is uninterrupted. This behaviour is consistent across all apps that show XVideo output - vlc, totem, miro. That is why I am filing this bug under Xorg.

I'm running karmic on a amd64 machine, xorg version is 1:.4+3ubuntu7 and the graphics driver is nvidia's 185 series blob.

I did a gdb session with totem. It spawns 7 threads. When I switch to another virtual terminal an error appears and all threads exit as does totem with the exit code 01. Here's the error:

The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 516 error_code 11 request_code 133 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Tags: crash karmic
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu)
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi jbartelj,

Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) from after reproducing the issue?

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tags: added: crash
tags: added: needs-xorglog
tags: added: needs-lspci-vvnn
Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Jasa Bartelj (jbartelj) wrote :
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Jasa Bartelj (jbartelj) wrote :

Here are the requested logs.

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Jasa Bartelj (jbartelj) wrote :

I edited the description as the crash occurs whenever switching back to the vty containing the video player. I have just tried running gstreamer-properties to change the default video output sink and it is the same no matter the setting - the application crashes with the same error message as in the original description.

description: updated
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: removed: needs-xorglog
tags: removed: needs-lspci-vvnn
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: added: karmic
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Jasa Bartelj (jbartelj) wrote :

Bug is still present in lucid and also in the new drivers 256 from the X-SWAT PPA (256.52-0ubuntu0sarvatt3~lucid).

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Jasa Bartelj (jbartelj) wrote :

This bug is no longer present in maverick/10.10 using the binary nVidia driver version 260.19.06!

I am sorry but I lack both the time and motivation to test any new releases of the previous major versions.

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