[Bf-taskforce25] Weird nasty 2.5 bug

Martin Poirier theeth at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 8 15:52:09 CEST 2009


You could always checkout older revisions from around that time, trying to pinpoint which one caused the bug.

Martin

--- On Wed, 7/8/09, Xavier Thomas <xavier.thomas.1980 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Xavier Thomas <xavier.thomas.1980 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-taskforce25] Weird nasty 2.5 bug
> To: "The Blender 2.5 TaskForce" <bf-taskforce25 at blender.org>
> Received: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 9:46 AM
> The strange thing here is that I
> never got that bug before
> aproximatively the 25th of june.
> I always build in debug, and got that bug after an svn up
> and I did
> not updated my system since may.
> 
> This make me think that the bug was introduced by a change
> in blender
> code. (but can still be due to some X, mesa or driver
> issue)
> The bad thing is that I have no idea on how to debug this
> as after the
> crash I am unable to use gdb.
> 
> xavier
> 
> 
> 2009/7/7 Jingyuan Huang <jingyuan.huang at gmail.com>:
> > I ran into that quite often in debug. Then I disabled
> hardware
> > acceleration and haven't encountered it so far.
> >
> > I'm not sure if it's a driver problem. It appears very
> often with my
> > ATI card, much less often with Nvidia (only once, and
> the system was
> > able to recover after a freeze. but I had to restart
> because the
> > graphics card was left in a bad state).
> >
> >
> > Best Wishes
> > Jingyuan Huang
> > ------------------------------------
> > Computer Graphics Lab
> > University of Waterloo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Xavier
> > Thomas<xavier.thomas.1980 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello,  mentioned it on IRC before disappearing
> but nobody replied, so
> >> now that I am back I report it here.
> >>
> >> Since about 2 weeks I have got some kind of
> freezes, only the mouse
> >> cursor is still moving when I use the mouse but
> keyboard and mouse
> >> click does nothing. I am unable to switch to
> another app to a text
> >> console and even to reboot my system. Only an evil
> hardware shutdown
> >> will turn my system usable again (after reboot of
> course)
> >>
> >> To reproduce the bug I just need to click on a
> "tab" button of the
> >> button windows, it does not crash each time but 9
> times out of 10
> >> here.
> >>
> >> I am on Debian squeeze GNU/Linux with intel GPU.
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