[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#763895: Bug#763895: Bug#763895: cinnamon crashes when a window opens

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 03/10/2014 18:31, Michal Suchanek ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for your quick replies.
>
> Excerpts from Maximiliano Curia's message of Fri Oct 03 16:55:01 +0200 2014:
>> ¡Hola Michal!
>>
>> El 2014-10-03 a las 14:06 +0000, Michal Suchanek escribió:
>>> after finally running cinnamon I tried to open a terminal (evilvte) and
>>> cinnamon immediately crashed. I tried restarting it grom that fallback mode
>>> dialog but it crashed immediately again. Closing the terminal window allowed
>>> cinnamon to be restarted. I suspected evilvte is in some way truly evil and
>>> kills cinnamon but I created a new folder on the desktop, opened it, and
>>> cinnamon crashed again when the file manager window opened.
>> In the attached xsession-errors file I see a weird sequence of actions, and
>> I'm not sure if the output is mixed with some other session.
>> Can you please copy the file before trying to start a failing application?
> I attach a file befor and after crash.
>
> It seems metacity is used in fallback session and gnome panel is used
> also either in main or fallback session.
>
> Hence they run in the crashed session and without them cinnamon fails
> completely when an error occurs.
>
>> So we can see the output generated by the failing application (just the
>> difference pasted in paste.debian.org would be ideal).
>>
>>> Xsession: X session started for root at Fri Oct  3 14:00:41 UTC 2014
>> It's highly disrecommended to use a graphical session as root.
> I know about that. It however does not make any meaningful difference
> for single user system unless I were to create a separate user account
> for every application.
>
>>> W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
>>> (cinnamon:2324): St-CRITICAL **: st_widget_get_theme_node called on the widget [0xb9150658 StBoxLayout.menu-selected-app-box] which is not in the stage.
>>>       JS LOG: Invalid network device type, is 14
>>> *********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
>>> File ../../../../../../../src/mesa/drivers/dri/radeon/radeon_swtcl.c function r100_swtcl_flush line 339
>>> Rendering was 1 commands larger than predicted size. We might overflow  command buffer.
>>> ***************************************************************************
>>> drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.
>>> x-session-manager[2172]: WARNING: Application 'cinnamon.desktop' killed by signal 15
>> I think the video driver you are using is dying when the composite manager
>> tries to start.
> It's dying at the time a window opens. Is starting a compositing manager
> delayed until that point?
>
> Either way, it looks like Mesa sends something unintelligible to the
> GPU.
>
> They talked about reworking and adding some new features to r100 so
> maybe there is an awesome new bug there.
>
>>>       JS LOG: About to start Cinnamon
>>>       JS LOG: Cinnamon started at Fri Oct 03 2014 14:01:01 GMT+0000 (UTC)
>>> (cinnamon:2421): St-CRITICAL **: st_widget_get_theme_node called on the widget [0xba07c670 StBoxLayout.menu-selected-app-box] which is not in the stage.
>>>       JS LOG: Invalid network device type, is 14
>>> drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.
>> Mmh, and it also dies in the fallback mode.
>>
>>> x-session-manager[2172]: WARNING: App 'cinnamon.desktop' respawning too quickly
>>> x-session-manager[2172]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
>> That's the end of the cinnamon session.
>>
>>> (gnome-panel:2437): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accelerator_parse_with_keycode: assertion 'accelerator != NULL' failed
>> I don't know why you are running gnome-panel, but that's not cinnamon related.
>> So, this seems to be another desktop environment session, did you start it or
>> was automatically started?
> It starts automagically when cinnamon fails.
>
>> Can you please let us know if you can use any composite window manager at all?
>>
> Presumably I am running a compositing manager because xcompmgr refuses
> to start on the excuse that a compositing manager is running.
>
> Is metacity doing compositing?
>
>> Also, there are no traces of evitvte or the file manager failing in this log.
>>
> They aren't really failing. They just open a window that makes cinnamon
> crash and keep running.
>
> The file manager is running anyway so there would be no trace of it in the log.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michal
>

Can someone test with cinnamon 2.6 please? Cinnamon and muffin have
commits with fix/improvements probably related.

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