(not KDE4.6.1) X crashes playing particular .mov files

hunky · l33t Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 910 Location: Alaska

Anyone seen this? KDE kicks me out to the log-in if I try to play a mov file from the Hawaii USGS site. At first I thought it might be a firefox issue causing it so I downloaded it to my hard drive and tried opening it with VLC. Same thing - there's two videos I've tried with same results.

I'm running ~AMD64.

Here's the links:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2011/Jan/20110306_0682_torr_small.mov
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2011/Mar/PuuOoCollapse_20110305_small.mov

What log do you think I should look at? /var/log/messages says "kdm[2507]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly"

Anyone else experience this?

cach0rr0 · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:22 am Post subject:

it plays for me, but it *does* do something a bit strange

http://ompldr.org/vN3NnbA

(I too, am on KDE-4.6.1)

video card?

8400GS here, using proprietary nvidia driver

others:

hunky · l33t Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 910 Location: Alaska

Thanks cach0rr0!

It is ATI Radeon HD 4290 video (on motherboard - Asus)
In my make.conf I have VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" (as well as fbdev and vesa)

toralf · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:45 am Post subject:

Under 4.6.1 I can play bothvideos using the vlc plugin for firefox (I unmerged gxine).
I've a x86 with GM45 intel graphic (kernel i915 /mesa i965 ).

hunky · l33t Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 910 Location: Alaska

Well, I rebooted and it is working now... DOH!

(it wasn't a nice reboot - I locked up hard so had to hit the reset)

Shall I mark it as resolved then? Might have been a recent update or something that needed a cleanup with a reboot or something. Haven't done a kernel update in a few days and have rebooted since then, so no idea.

Thanks guys for looking - really appreciate it.

albright · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject:

kite14 · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Italy

I'm sorry to reopen this thread, but I can confirm the KDE crash upon playing these clips vith VLC.
Randomly there is no crash, but then the player shows 2 video streams just like Cachorro's screenshot.

Other video players (mplayer and kaffeine) doesn't complain at all and play the videos perfectly.

Filed a bug at KDE → https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268386

bandreabis · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:27 pm Post subject:

Just happened to me too, with files you uploaded on bug report.
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hunky · l33t Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 910 Location: Alaska

I removed the SOLVED from the subject for now then.

Wonder if this thread is related:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858430.html

kite14 · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Italy

Just an update: KDE devs answered with this:

kite14 · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Italy

Once again, I was barking at the wrong tree:

cach0rr0 · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:41 am Post subject:

Has anyone here had it crash on anything besides an ATI card?

No crash here on nvidia, no crash for the fella above on intel.
Two confirmed crashes on ATI cards, one with fglrx, the other seemingly with radeon.
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hunky · l33t Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 910 Location: Alaska

my system has become unstable lately anyway- last couple days. Looking through Xorg log and xsession-errors I didn't see anything jumping out. A couple times an evening the computer will hard lock up - can move the mouse cursor around sometimes but clicking doesn't do anything. Can't alt-tab or ctrl-alt-backspace (that sometimes causes the cursor to also lock up). Othertimes the cursor splits into a double image of a cursor and it hard locked - sometimes that happens when trying to resize a window.

Don't know if this relates to any ATI bug causing X to fail. Just extra data points.

/jd

cach0rr0 · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:10 am Post subject:

ah...well that's a whole different can of worms I suppose
I get stuff like that too

i noticed if i change desktop effects alt+tab animation to do the 'flip switch' instead of the default box thing, it brings things to such a crawl that KDE forcibly disables compositing
but i just assume this is a side-effect of ~arch

i have other little locks and hang-ups, but none annoying enough to really bother me.

NB: what about Alt+SysRq+K whenever it locks you out like that?
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hunky · l33t Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 910 Location: Alaska

Haven't tried the Alt+SysRq+K yet, will file that away for next lockup. Hopefully my keyboard will still be able to communicate. Save your work early and save often - seems things so far have come back fine from my resets to date.

kite14 · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Italy

I confirm I'm using open-source radeon driver (Radeon HD 3650 video card)

bandreabis · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:05 pm Post subject:

Here radeon too (X200M)
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