X crashes while using Iceweasel

PlantPerson · 05-23-2009, 05:44 PM

Hello everyone, I'm running the DebianEEEPC (Lenny) variant on my Asus EEEE 904HA netbook. It has been working quite well except for one recurrent and unfortunate problem: Occasionally X fails unexpectedly and won't restart until I reboot. The screen suddenly goes black and turns on and off a few times before displaying a blue screen with a gray box informing me that X has failed to initiate. Entering "startx" into a terminal does not work, but after rebooting X starts just fine as it always does.

So far I have not been able to reproduce this problem intentionally, but I have noticed that it only seems to occur while I am using Iceweasel. The last time it happened, I chose the "Restore previous session" option when I started Iceweasel again, and X crashed again a few seconds later, which reinforces my suspicion that it is somehow causing this to happen. This has never happened when I am not using Iceweasel.

The X error screen which appears after these crashes has an option to view some sort of logs, but does not offer an option to save a copy. Is there somewhere on the disk where these logs are stored, so that I might be able to post them here?

Zyndarius · 05-23-2009, 07:59 PM

Logs related with the X server should be stored in /var/log/ within the text file Xorg.0.log

Try searching for clues there. =)

PlantPerson · 05-25-2009, 07:27 AM

Well, I just experienced another crash, but unfortunately logs related to that crash appear to have been overwritten when I attempted startx. Next time I'll make copies of them first. I do have a little bit more information, though.

When I ran startx (after the crash), I got these error messages after failure:

Code:

xinit:  Connection reset by peer (errno 104): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error

And thankfully, I do have one of the logs from one of these attempts to start X. Here's the part where the failure happened, so far as I can tell:

Code:

...

(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbModel: "pc104"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) evaluating device (Configured Mouse)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) evaluating device (Generic Keyboard)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
(--) Configured Mouse: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds
pgetbl_ctl: 0x3ffc0001 getbl_err: 0x00000000
ipeir: 0x00000000 iphdr: 0x54f00006
LP ring tail: 0x0000f3f0 head: 0x0000f414 len: 0x0001f001 start 0x00000000
eir: 0x0000 esr: 0x0000 emr: 0xffff
instdone: 0xfa41 instpm: 0x0000
memmode: 0x00000306 instps: 0x800f04d1
hwstam: 0xfffe ier: 0x0002 imr: 0x0000 iir: 0x0020
Ring at virtual 0xa78bb000 head 0xf414 tail 0xf3f0 count 32759
	0000f394: 03cc1000
	0000f398: 001c0258
	0000f39c: 0020025c
	0000f3a0: 00800000
	0000f3a4: 00000000
	0000f3a8: 00000010
	0000f3ac: 00c00000
	0000f3b0: 54f00006
	0000f3b4: 03cc1000
	0000f3b8: 001c025c
	0000f3bc: 00200260
	0000f3c0: 00800000
	0000f3c4: 00000000
	0000f3c8: 00000010
	0000f3cc: 00c00000
	0000f3d0: 54f00006
	0000f3d4: 03cc1000
	0000f3d8: 001c0260
	0000f3dc: 00200264
	0000f3e0: 00800000
	0000f3e4: 00000000
	0000f3e8: 00000010
	0000f3ec: 00c00000
	0000f3f0: cec10720
	0000f3f4: cec1cec1
	0000f3f8: cec10720
	0000f3fc: cec1cec1
	0000f400: cec10720
	0000f404: cec1cec1
	0000f408: cec10720
	0000f40c: cec1cec1
	0000f410: cec10720
	0000f414: cec1cec1
Ring end
space: 28 wanted 32
(II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf8d67000 at 0xb7aca000
(II) intel(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.

Fatal server error:
lockup

(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 1
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 2
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 3
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 4

[end of log]

I realize this probably isn't enough to go on, but any insights would be appreciated. Next time it crashes I'll be more careful about saving the output.

PlantPerson · 06-10-2009, 06:45 AM

It just happened again. I made copies of the logs before I restarted, but unfortunately the logs seem to reflect only the couple times that X automatically attempted to restart following the crash. I can post them if anyone thinks they might be helpful. I don't really know how to read them and thus I don't know what section to post.

I have, however, noticed an interesting correlation. I don't remember the circumstances of the first couple crashes, but recently every time it's crashed, it has been when I attempted to access this webcomic: http://chronillogical.com/ . Now it doesn't crash every time I go there, but I'm not sure it has ever crashed under different circumstances. What this means I have no idea.

Zyndarius · 06-11-2009, 06:22 AM

I am not sure, but maybe is the flash support what is failing. A while ago, my Iceweasel crashed, but without crashing the whole X server, but it was due to some files missing for the flash plug-in to work correctly, maybe this could be related to something like that, but is only an assumption.

By the way, did you try running iceweasel from the console, maybe when it crashes it throws important messages.