[CentOS] X Crashing on 64 Bit CentOS

Fri Jul 31 13:10:54 UTC 2009
Paul Griffith <paulg at cse.yorku.ca>

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:55:42 -0400, Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> I have a user who is regularly having X Crash.  This seemed to happen
> once a month but has increased to once or twice a week.  It doesn't seem
> to be application specific.  The only information about whats causing
> the crash is from the X log.  But this doesn't really give much to go on.
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x71) [0x4865b1]
> 1: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x3475430280]
> 2: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyAreammx+0x274) [0x2b917c4dbe14]
> 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbComposite+0x5db) [0x2b917c4cc65b]
> 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libxaa.so(XAAComposite+0x2ac) [0x2b917c71d94c]
> 5: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x51379d]
> 6: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x50fb54]
> 7: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x5032ef]
> 8: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x1ca) [0x449c9a]
> 9: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x44e) [0x4325ee]
> 10: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x347541d974]
>
> Any suggestions as to how I diagnose this further?  I have just applied
> the latest update

I would start by turning off the composite extensions! Try bumping up the debug/logging level!

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Paul Griffith