From: Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: [REGRESSION] Xorg doesn't like 4e8b14526 "time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs"
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:05:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120831040500.GA6090@amos.fritz.box> (raw)
I have recently started to get problems with X simply shutting itself
down and returning to the login screen. In the X logs I find:
> [ 1492.936]
> Fatal server error:
> [ 1492.936] WaitForSomething(): select: Invalid argument
No messages whatsoever is found in the kernel logs. This error happens
randomly without any correlation to user input, but with a high
likelihood (within a few minutes at most) when a video is playing. It
doesn't matter if the video is in Flash in a browser window or in a
video player playing a local file.
With that somewhat easy test I bisected it down to 4e8b14526 "time:
Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs". The latest Linus git
(155e36d40) with a revert of the bisected commit does not show the
problem.
Video is Radeon HD 6950 with open source drivers. Xorg version is the
one currently in Debian unstable (xserver-xorg-core: 2:1.12.3.902-1,
xserver-xorg-video-radeon: 1:6.14.4-5, libdrm: 2.4.33-3).
--
Andreas Bombe
next reply other threads:[~2012-08-31 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-31 4:05 Andreas Bombe [this message]
2012-08-31 4:25 ` [REGRESSION] Xorg doesn't like 4e8b14526 "time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs" Linus Torvalds
2012-08-31 17:41 ` Andreas Bombe
2012-08-31 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-08-31 17:43 ` John Stultz
2012-09-01 2:02 ` Andreas Bombe
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