[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 378554] Re: [G45] (UXA) openarena crashes after 1-20 min of play

[Wolfgang Kufner]

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: openarena (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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[G45] (UXA) openarena crashes after 1-20 min of play
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Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Incomplete
Status in “openarena” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: openarena

[Problem]
openarena freezes after several minutes of singleplayer gameplay. It rarely happens right at the start but most often after half a map or one and a half maps. The screen becomes completely unresponsive and the sound loops in a subsecond loop but background processes keep working and openarena doesn't use excessive cpu. It happens in full screen and windowed mode. During play graphics are flawless.

[Discussion]
Switching to other tty's doesn't show any change on the screen but it is possible to ssh into the box and use top or kill processes. It just doesn't show any change on screen.
When starting openarena from a terminal window, it will only show bot chat but no error messages get displayed during crash.
"sudo reboot" initiates reboot with a system beep (but no screen change) and ssh gets disconnected after some hdd activity, but shutdown doesn't finish.
Alt+Print+[REISUB] works to reboot the machine. After Alt+Print+R the game texture colors become partly inverted and after Alt+Print+B the screen finally goes blank.

This crash has occured on this machine on several seperate installations since (myth/K/u)buntu 8.10 x86_64 and hasn't changed with any update to
(-> ubuntu 9.04
 -> ubuntu 9.04 + x-swat ppa
 -> ubuntu 9.04 + x-swat ppa + intel 2:2.7.99.1-1 from debian experimental reps)
(-> mythbuntu 9.04
 -> mythbuntu 9.10 alpha1
 -> mythbuntu 9.10 alpha1 + xorg-edgers ppa)
(-> Kubuntu 9.04).
It also shows on Sabayon 4.1 .

(most recent) System environment:
-- chipset: Intel G45
-- system architecture: 64-bit
-- xf86-video-intel: 2:2.7.99.1+git20090519.09beee37-0ubuntu0sarvatt
-- xserver: 2:1.6.1.901-0ubuntu0sarvatt
-- mesa: 7.6.0~git20090519.d0eccc41-0ubuntu0sarvatt
-- libdrm: 2.4.11+git20090519.f355ad89-0ubuntu0sarvatt
-- kernel: 2.6.30-5-generic #6-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 11 20:46:57 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
-- Linux distribution: mythbuntu 9.10 / XFCE
-- Machine or mobo model: Foxconn G45M-S (X4500 HD)
-- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400
-- RAM: ADATA 2x2GB
-- Display connector: VGA
-- Monitor: HP LP2475w

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 20 05:04:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/games/openarena
Package: openarena 0.8.1-4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-5.6-generic
SourcePackage: openarena
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-5-generic x86_64