Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-08-04 Thread Tormod Volden
I was running xscreensaver continuously for a couple of months but could not reproduce. If nobody else can reproduce and you cannot provide more information I must at least lower the severity of this bug report. Regards, Tormod On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:29 PM Tormod Volden wrote: > > Jens, the

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-26 Thread Tormod Volden
Jens, the log indicates the machine has an Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) GPU. Is this the same for the other machines? I have been trying to reproduce for several days, also running on Intel drivers, but with a 5500 series GPU and also I am on "testing" so I have newer Xorg and kernel. To

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-24 Thread Jamie Zawinski
For best logging: xscreensaver -verbose -log log.txt

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-24 Thread Jens Holzkämper
Hi, sorry for the late answer but we're currently mostly shutdown because of COVID-19 and other things took priority. On 14.03.20 21:41, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > Maybe this is the kernel OOM-killer shooting down random long-running processes, as it sometimes likes to do? No, if that were the ca

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-23 Thread Tormod Volden
Jens, can you please also attach an Xorg log from the crash? If I understand the original report right, the X session continued otherwise as normal, so I guess the X server didn't crash. It could have run out of memory temporarily, or xscreensaver requested something out of reach, like loads of mem

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-14 Thread Jamie Zawinski
As far as I know, an XIO error means the X server dropped the connection to the xscreensaver client. So either the X server itself crashed, or it decided to disconnect xscreensaver for some unknown reason. If the client had done something wrong, X11-protocol-wise, this would have been a more v

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-09 Thread Jens Holzkämper
So, I tried another self compiled version, this time without any of the Debian patches to see if the crashes happen with a pure upstream version: They do (see attached log), so I'll inform upstream of the problem as well. > When using > xscreensaver -nosplash -log /tmp/x.log -verbose & > I di

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-04 Thread Omer Zak
xscreensaver crashes also in my system. Debian version: 10.3 (Buster) xscreensaver version: 5.42+dfsg1-1 My system (a laptop) has 3 screens: - the original one - connected via HDMI - connected via DisplayLink When using xscreensaver -nosplash -log /tmp/x.log -verbose & I did not see the XIO fata