Re: Help request: strange issue with xfce xfwm4 on AMD hardware, running head

On 28/05/23 00:28, Jan Beich wrote:
> Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> writes:
> 
>> On 27/05/23 10:31, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm seeing a strange issue with xfwm4 on my laptop running head
>>> (commit 5804b7ab378d6207130bd1685c931da6a4e76e55), using pkgbase,
>>> everything build on poudriere.
>>> I have filed an issue upstream with a description and some finding:
>>> https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/issues/722
>>> I'm testing changing some things but I get the same exact error 100%
>>> repeatable.
>>>
>>
>> A friend of mine suggested trying to disable DRI 3 and this indeed
>> allowed xfwm4 to not crash.
>>
>> This is a workaround, not a fix, and does not explain what is causing
>> the behavior.
>>
>> Not sure where I should be looking, I'll also check changes in kernel
>> that could be related.
>>
>> Again if anyone has some insight please share!
> 
> See also https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253746

This one is interesting. I'll followup there, if someone could produce a 
backtrace from the crashed frozen executable, maybe we could cross check 
the code causing it.

I'll followup there.

> 
> Maybe check if DRI3 in Xwayland is also affected e.g.,
> 

Can't do this right away, but I'll try soon!

P.S. Thanks for the feedback!

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Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>