[Resolved] LightDM crashes on window mouse-over

Frogman · 2015-11-04 01:32:20

Very odd issue! I installed BL on an old IBM A21p. The only changes from the fresh install were to add files to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d to get X working at 1600x1200. LightDM will instantly crash and restart/go to login, if I mouse over a window that I have typed in for many types of window. It will also crash if I put the mouse cursor over a window and then start to type. If I open a window and don't type, then no crash while mousing over it.

Repeatability:
Terminal window - crashes
Xombrero - crashes
LightDM login screen - crashes
Geany - no crash
Iceweasel - no crash
Thunar - crashed once while entering a location to browse to, haven't replicated another crash

I've had to resort to doing all my CLI work for this laptop in a console VT. I had thought maybe something went wrong with the install so I wiped and reinstalled and the issue persisted. I also tried the BL live from the boot DVD and didn't notice it crashing there. I have BL installed from the same media on other ThinkPads (r50p) and have no problems.

What logs would be useful? I'll try to get some output of journalctl during a crash.

Journalctl output from two crashes:

-- Logs begin at Mon 2015-11-02 17:43:49 CST. --
Nov 03 19:23:52 bunsen lightdm[14031]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session opened for user jon by (uid=0)
Nov 03 19:23:52 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: New session 13 of user jon.
Nov 03 19:23:54 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14066]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:23:54 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14066]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:23:54 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14117]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Nov 03 19:23:54 bunsen polkitd(authority=local)[553]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:13 (system bus name :1.240 [/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Nov 03 19:23:56 bunsen pulseaudio[2672]: Failed to open module module-x11-publish.so: module-x11-publish.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Nov 03 19:23:56 bunsen pulseaudio[2672]: Failed to open module "module-x11-publish".
Nov 03 19:23:57 bunsen pkexec[14145]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000)
Nov 03 19:23:57 bunsen pkexec[14145]: jon: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/] [COMMAND=/usr/sbin/xfpm-power-backlight-helper --set-brightness-switch 0]
Nov 03 19:26:32 bunsen smartd[451]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 3 Spin_Up_Time changed from 142 to 136
Nov 03 19:27:08 bunsen sudo[14258]: jon : TTY=tty2 ; PWD=/home/jon ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/smartctl
Nov 03 19:27:08 bunsen sudo[14258]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by jon(uid=0)
Nov 03 19:27:08 bunsen sudo[14258]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Nov 03 19:27:12 bunsen sudo[14262]: jon : TTY=tty2 ; PWD=/home/jon ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/smartctl -h
Nov 03 19:27:12 bunsen sudo[14262]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by jon(uid=0)
Nov 03 19:27:14 bunsen sudo[14262]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Nov 03 19:27:27 bunsen sudo[14269]: jon : TTY=tty2 ; PWD=/home/jon ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/smartctl -H /dev/sda
Nov 03 19:27:27 bunsen sudo[14269]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by jon(uid=0)
Nov 03 19:27:28 bunsen sudo[14269]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Nov 03 19:27:47 bunsen sudo[14278]: jon : TTY=tty2 ; PWD=/home/jon ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/smartctl --test=short /dev/sda
Nov 03 19:27:47 bunsen sudo[14278]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by jon(uid=0)
Nov 03 19:27:48 bunsen sudo[14278]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Nov 03 19:29:42 bunsen systemd[658]: Time has been changed
Nov 03 19:29:42 bunsen systemd[10595]: Time has been changed
Nov 03 19:30:17 bunsen sudo[14342]: jon : TTY=tty2 ; PWD=/home/jon ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/smartctl --attributes --log=selftest /dev/sda
Nov 03 19:30:17 bunsen sudo[14342]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by jon(uid=0)
Nov 03 19:30:18 bunsen sudo[14342]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Nov 03 19:31:28 bunsen wpa_supplicant[561]: wlan0: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:01:40:83:00 [GTK=CCMP]
Nov 03 19:31:36 bunsen kernel: wlan0: AP 00:24:01:40:83:00 changed bandwidth, new config is 2437 MHz, width 2 (2447/0 MHz)
Nov 03 19:34:46 bunsen kernel: wlan0: AP 00:24:01:40:83:00 changed bandwidth, new config is 2437 MHz, width 1 (2437/0 MHz)
Nov 03 19:36:49 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14020]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:36:49 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14014]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:36:49 bunsen gnome-keyring-daemon[14039]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:36:49 bunsen lightdm[14031]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session closed for user jon
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen polkitd(authority=local)[553]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:13 (system bus name :1.240, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen kernel: lightdm[14031]: segfault at b7747f38 ip b775fe48 sp bfb9eab0 error 4 in ld-2.19.so[b7751000+1f000]
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14066]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14117]: XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14117]: after 49 requests (49 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[14066]: A connection to the bus can't be made
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[14066]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen lightdm[2480]: ** (process:14497): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen lightdm[14497]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightdm by (uid=0)
Nov 03 19:36:50 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: New session c21 of user lightdm.
Nov 03 19:36:51 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14506]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:36:51 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14506]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:36:51 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14512]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Nov 03 19:36:52 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: Removed session c20.
Nov 03 19:36:52 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: Removed session 13.
Nov 03 19:36:58 bunsen lightdm[2480]: ** (process:14521): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 03 19:36:58 bunsen lightdm[2480]: (lightdm:2480): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal: assertion 'object_path != NULL && g_variant_is_object_path (object_path)' failed
Nov 03 19:36:58 bunsen lightdm[2480]: (lightdm:2480): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal: assertion 'object_path != NULL && g_variant_is_object_path (object_path)' failed
Nov 03 19:36:58 bunsen lightdm[14497]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session closed for user lightdm
Nov 03 19:36:58 bunsen lightdm[14521]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session opened for user jon by (uid=0)
Nov 03 19:36:58 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: New session 14 of user jon.
Nov 03 19:37:00 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14556]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:37:00 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14556]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:37:00 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14607]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Nov 03 19:37:01 bunsen polkitd(authority=local)[553]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:14 (system bus name :1.257 [/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Nov 03 19:37:02 bunsen pulseaudio[2672]: Failed to open module module-x11-publish.so: module-x11-publish.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Nov 03 19:37:02 bunsen pulseaudio[2672]: Failed to open module "module-x11-publish".
Nov 03 19:37:03 bunsen pkexec[14631]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000)
Nov 03 19:37:03 bunsen pkexec[14631]: jon: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/] [COMMAND=/usr/sbin/xfpm-power-backlight-helper --set-brightness-switch 0]
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14512]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14506]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen gnome-keyring-daemon[14529]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen lightdm[14521]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session closed for user jon
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen polkitd(authority=local)[553]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:14 (system bus name :1.257, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen org.freedesktop.Notifications[14556]: xfce4-notifyd: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14607]: XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14607]: after 61 requests (61 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14556]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[14556]: A connection to the bus can't be made
Nov 03 19:39:25 bunsen org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[14556]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Nov 03 19:39:26 bunsen lightdm[2480]: ** (process:14747): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 03 19:39:26 bunsen lightdm[14747]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightdm by (uid=0)
Nov 03 19:39:26 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: New session c22 of user lightdm.
Nov 03 19:39:26 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14756]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:39:26 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14756]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:39:26 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14762]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Nov 03 19:39:28 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: Removed session c21.
Nov 03 19:39:28 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: Removed session 14.
Nov 03 19:39:33 bunsen lightdm[2480]: ** (process:14772): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 03 19:39:34 bunsen lightdm[2480]: (lightdm:2480): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal: assertion 'object_path != NULL && g_variant_is_object_path (object_path)' failed
Nov 03 19:39:34 bunsen lightdm[2480]: (lightdm:2480): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal: assertion 'object_path != NULL && g_variant_is_object_path (object_path)' failed
Nov 03 19:39:34 bunsen lightdm[14747]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session closed for user lightdm
Nov 03 19:39:34 bunsen lightdm[14772]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session opened for user jon by (uid=0)
Nov 03 19:39:34 bunsen systemd-logind[457]: New session 15 of user jon.
Nov 03 19:39:36 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14807]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:39:36 bunsen org.a11y.Bus[14807]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 03 19:39:36 bunsen org.a11y.atspi.Registry[14858]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Nov 03 19:39:36 bunsen polkitd(authority=local)[553]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:15 (system bus name :1.273 [/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Nov 03 19:39:38 bunsen pulseaudio[2672]: Failed to open module module-x11-publish.so: module-x11-publish.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Nov 03 19:39:38 bunsen pulseaudio[2672]: Failed to open module "module-x11-publish".
Nov 03 19:39:38 bunsen pkexec[14882]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000)
Nov 03 19:39:39 bunsen pkexec[14882]: jon: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/] [COMMAND=/usr/sbin/xfpm-power-backlight-helper --set-brightness-switch 0]

Last edited by Frogman (2015-11-05 02:38:41)

hhh · 2015-11-04 01:55:58

Well, what's in xorg.conf.d?

Frogman · 2015-11-04 02:55:37

Ask/receive, yadda, yadda, yadda.

04-device.conf:

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
        ### <percent>: "<f>%"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DMAForXv"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForcePCIMode"       	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CCEPIOMode"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CCENoSecurity"      	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CCEusecTimeout"     	# <i>
        #Option     "AGPMode"            	# <i>
        #Option     "AGPSize"            	# <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"           	# <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"         	# <i>
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"     	# [<bool>]
        Option     "Display"            	"BIOS" # <str>
        Option     "PanelWidth"         	"1600" # <i>
        Option     "PanelHeight"        	"1200" # <i>
        #Option     "ProgramFPRegs"      	# [<bool>]
        Option     "UseFBDev"           	"false" # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "VGAAccess"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"        	# <str>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"        	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "r128"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

04-monitor.conf:

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "IBM"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	HorizSync	30-95
	VertRefresh	58-76
EndSection

04-screen.conf

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes	"1600x1200" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-04 07:32:39

Does the issue persist if you remove the xorg configuration files?

How did you install your video drivers?

ohnonot · 2015-11-04 17:47:06

this model is ~15 years old.
granted, it probably was absolutely high end then.

a problem with your graphics card/driver it is for sure:

AGP 2x - ATI RAGE Mobility 128 - 16 MB SGRAM

so yeah, how did you install your graphic driver?
and, what is the output of

lspci -k | grep -iA5 vga

-snip- hhh

Last edited by hhh (2015-11-04 19:27:28)

Frogman · 2015-11-05 01:25:16

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Does the issue persist if you remove the xorg configuration files?

Tried removing the changes and there is no crash. It does look pretty terrible, though.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

How did you install your video drivers?

Nothing was installed, r128 is a stock X.org driver.

Frogman · 2015-11-05 01:46:36

ohnonot wrote:

this model is ~15 years old.
granted, it probably was absolutely high end then.

Yeah, it is old. I got a literal box full of ThinkPads from a co-worker, in various states of dis-repair. This is one of the few working ones.

ohnonot wrote:

so yeah, how did you install your graphic driver?

Stock X.org driver

ohnonot wrote:

and, what is the output of
lspci -k | grep -iA5 vga

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage Mobility 128 AGP 2X/Mobility M3 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: IBM IBM Thinkpad A22p
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5416 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008 802.11(a)bgn] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Linksys WPC100 v1 802.11n RangePlus Wireless Notebook Adapter
	Kernel driver in use: ath9k

Last edited by Frogman (2015-11-05 01:49:21)

tknomanzr · 2015-11-05 02:06:59

Try this out:
https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
Use the following to setup your xorg.conf

sudo aticonfig --initial

Frogman · 2015-11-05 02:37:40

tknomanzr wrote:

Try this out:
https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary

Far too old to have Catalyst support, even in the old releases. :-/

I did some more Google digging and found a page with a similar display problem with a similar chip model. I looked over their setting and realized that SWCursor might work. I put back in my modified configs and also set:

Option "SWCursor" "true"

And it's working fine. Woo! I guess there is a bug in the hardware cursor for the r128 driver. Time to file an upstream bug report.

tknomanzr · 2015-11-05 03:40:57

I am glad you were able to figure this out. I just figured if you were having to hand write an xorg.cong file, you were also contemplating jumping off a bridge

Frogman · 2015-11-05 05:01:12

I'll just ride it out. I'm sure it will be fine.

#1 2015-11-04 01:32:20

[Resolved] LightDM crashes on window mouse-over

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