Another duplicate today. This bug in libmirclient is now causing Untiy8 to fail start-up sometimes, and black-screen.
** Tags added: black-screen unity8-desktop ** Summary changed: - libmirclient gives up and terminates prematurely with "std::exception::what: disconnected: no new buffers" via ExchangeSemantics::submit() + unity8/libmirclient gives up and terminates prematurely with "std::exception::what: disconnected: no new buffers" via ExchangeSemantics::submit() ** Description changed: Under heavy resizing (stress testing under Valgrind), my Mir client (Xmir) crashed with: [1444895332.392862] <ERROR> MirBufferStreamAPI: Caught exception at client library boundary (in mir_buffer_stream_swap_buffers): /build/mir-7io2Aj/mir-0.16.0+15.10.20150921.1/src/client/buffer_stream.cpp(169): Throw in function virtual MirWaitHandle* {anonymous}::ExchangeSemantics::submit(const std::function<void()>&, mir::geometry::Size, MirPixelFormat, int) Dynamic exception type: boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<std::runtime_error> > std::exception::what: disconnected: no new buffers The strange thing is it's only the client that died. The server survived and I can connect new clients to it. - Duplicate bug reports now show Unity8 is another such client suffering - from this crash. It's occurring on phones in the wild. + --- + Duplicate bug reports now show Unity8 is another such client suffering from this crash. It's occurring on phones and desktops in the wild. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1506358 Title: unity8/libmirclient gives up and terminates prematurely with "std::exception::what: disconnected: no new buffers" via ExchangeSemantics::submit() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1506358/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp