[Pkg-blender-maintainers] Bug#455310: Blender crashes with Segmentation fault

[Ivan Marin]

Package: blender
Version: 2.45-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages blender depends on:
ii  gettext [libgettextpo0] 0.16.1-2         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libavcodec1d            0.cvs20070307-6  ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat1d           0.cvs20070307-6  ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil1d             0.cvs20070307-6  ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                   2.7-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdc1394-13            1.1.0-5          high level programming interface f
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2.2-4        GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.2-2          A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]  7.0.2-2          The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgsm1                 1.0.12-1         Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii  libjpeg62               6b-14            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libogg0                 1.1.3-2          Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libopenexr2ldbl         1.2.2-4.4        runtime files for the OpenEXR imag
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-3   PNG library - runtime
ii  libraw1394-8            1.3.0-2          library for direct access to IEEE 
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.11-9         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6              4.2.2-4          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtheora0              1.0~beta2-2      The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvorbis0a             1.2.0.dfsg-2     The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2           1.2.0.dfsg-2     The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.3-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  python-central          0.5.15           register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python2.4               2.4.4-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime

blender recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Blender crashes before opening with

guessing 'blender-bin' == '/usr/bin/blender-bin'
Compiled with Python version 2.4.4.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
/usr/bin/blender: line 46:  4057 Segmentation Fault  blender-bin "$@"

running gdb against blender-bin:

---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
(no debugging symbols found)
Compiled with Python version 2.4.4.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
[New Thread 0x2ad07daa4e80 (LWP 4060)]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x2ad07daa4e80 (LWP 4060)]
0x00002ad07db8fa4a in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so

DRI is turned on in my system. My graphics card is an Intel 945:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

and I am using the intel driver on xorg.