I logged in after much struggle with upgrading to karmic, launched firefox noted this error in system tray.
I could get karmic up and running, when realized I should add vmalloc=256M while booting up. I was doing this before karmic upgrade as well.
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 3 19:54:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/glxinfo
Lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0f62:1001 Acrox Technologies Co., Ltd Targus Mini Trackball Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: TOSHIBA Qosmio F20
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mesa-utils 7.5-1ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.31-4-generic root=UUID=7c5420d6-c0ff-4e46-99ee-175d06daec15 ro quiet splash vmalloc=256M
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/glxinfo
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.23-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.5-1ubuntu1
libdrm2 2.4.12-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu4
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x184be7 <memset+55>: rep stos %eax,%es:(%edi)
PC (0x00184be7) ok
source "%eax" ok
destination "%es:(%edi)" (0x0879107b) in non-writable VMA region: 0x08791000-0x08792000 r--p None
SegvReason: writing VMA None
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: mesa
StacktraceTop:
memset () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
calloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
?? ()
?? ()
Title: glxinfo crashed with SIGSEGV in memset()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare users vboxusers video
dmi.bios.date: 12/28/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: Version 1.40
dmi.board.name: Portable PC
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Version A0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0000000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrVersion1.40:bd12/28/2005:svnTOSHIBA:pnQosmioF20:pvrPQF20E-02M022EN:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrVersionA0:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrVersion1.0:
dmi.product.name: Qosmio F20
dmi.product.version: PQF20E-02M022EN
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-4-generic
StacktraceTop: memset () at ../sysdeps/ i386/i686/ memset. S:85
__libc_calloc (n=1, elem_size=16384) at malloc.c:4099
?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
main (argc=1, argv=0xbfe299e4) at glxinfo.c:1142