Duplicate bug 998708 suggests this was still a problem on precise in Mesa 8.0.2 at least.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/914773 Title: [radeon] Compiz memory leak and blank screen unable to login when using radeon driver Status in Compiz: Invalid Status in Compiz 0.9.8 series: Invalid Status in Compiz Core: Invalid Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “mesa” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The issue appears to be that radeon's implementation of glXWaitVideoSyncSGI (from libgl1-mesa-glx) hangs and leaks X events while the screen is locked and asleep. The leak is around 200 bytes (one XEvent) per frame or about 12.5KB per second. It is most noticeable if some application is continuously redrawing during this time. But only if the application itself does not sync to vblank. For example: KVM, QEMU or: env vblank_mode=0 glxgears WORKAROUNDS: 1. Before leaving/locking the PC run ccsm, and in the OpenGL section disable "Sync To VBlank". 2. Before leaving/locking the PC, minimize all active windows. 3. Install fglrx driver from AMD/ATI. But then you'll have bug 969860. ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: There are two issues. Compiz has a memory leak so it expands to take up all memory plus swap (12 + 4 gig) Unity shows a blank screen and does not come up with a login prompt, only the mouse pointer is displayed. ctl+alt F1 works so you can get into a console and create the attached bug report. This was after killing vviewer and before restarting lightdm I was running KVM and vviewer as well and killed vviewer but still did not get get login screen Killed compiz which freed the memory still did not get login screen had to restart lightdm to get back into Unity and restart everything. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-2.6-generic 3.1.0 Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell] CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-order /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: comm: /var/log/dmesg: Permission denied Date: Wed Jan 11 13:16:58 2012 DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-10-17 17:02:13.788852 DistroCodename: oneiric DistroVariant: ubuntu ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz GraphicsCard: ATI Technologies Inc Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450] [1002:68f9] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:2341] InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H67M-UD2H-B3 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-2-generic root=UUID=75185a0a-ffd1-4a37-9bda-52f17a050b24 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (85 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 02/22/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: F2 dmi.board.name: H67M-UD2H-B3 dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd02/22/2011:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnH67M-UD2H-B3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnH67M-UD2H-B3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: H67M-UD2H-B3 dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu6 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu26 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2.1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/914773/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
