Some apps kill xorg, with XFCE compositing 'on'

Neil- · 05-11-2008, 12:17 PM

Hi guys, having a few issues since the 12.1 upgrade.

With XFCE compositing set to on, some apps kill xorg server. I've confirmed it in 'kgeography' and maple in classic worksheet (old style) mode.. Turn compositing off and they run fine.

They worked fine in slack 12.0, I've tried upgrading to the latest nvidia driver and the beta nvidia driver to no avail.

Here is the sort of error I get spat out:

Code:

   1.
      Backtrace:
   2.
      0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x80) [0x80dbde0]
   3.
      1: [0xffffe420]
   4.
       
   5.
      Fatal server error:
   6.
      Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
   7.
       
   8.
      xfce4-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
   9.
      Thunar: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
  10.
      firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
  11.
      xfce4-menu-plugin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
  12.
      kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
  13.
      ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 3113, errno = 11
  14.
      kded: Fatal IO error: client killed
  15.
      klauncher: Exiting on signal 15
  16.
      Agent pid 2698 killed
  17.
      xfdesktop: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
  18.
      xfce4-panel: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.
  19.
      xfce-mcs-manager: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.
  20.
      Terminal: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.
  21.
      xfwm4: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.

Here is my xorg.conf just in case: http://pastebin.org/35271

Any ideas? Bit of a weird problem and I see no common thread with the apps that kill xorg.

Thanks in advance

Neil- · 05-11-2008, 07:38 PM

Found that running the compiz compositor doesn't have the crashes, so unless I find a better way, I'll be doing this instead..

Neil- · 05-14-2008, 12:54 PM

*Bump*

Any ideas guys? Obviously would rather not need to run the compiz compositor...

rworkman · 05-14-2008, 02:08 PM

It's quite possibly a bug in Xfce's compositor (I'd guess that's *exactly* what it is); drop a mail on xfce-dev at xfce.org (the -devel mailing list) and see if anyone has any ideas. Alternatively, file a bug first and then link the bug in the mailing list report (that's actually a better idea).

Neil- · 05-14-2008, 03:15 PM

Thanks very much rworkman, will do so

Neil- · 05-14-2008, 03:44 PM

As an addition, I just spoke to some people in #xfce.

Apparently they think it's an xorg or driver problem. Apparently xfwm4 uses xrender for compositing whilst compiz uses opengl, which could explain the difference..

Edit: For reference to anyone reading this, here is the bug report: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15938