The gdm :0.log filled up my entire root partition. Incredibly, Linux continued to run!
Examined the log and noticed several thousand (million?) occurrences of the following message sequence:
Mesa 7.6 implementation error: bad datatype in interpolate_int_colors
Please report at bugzilla.freedesktop.org
Mesa 7.6 implementation error: Invalid datatype in _mesa_convert_colors
Please report at bugzilla.freedesktop.org
I suspect that something may be wrong with Mesa 7.6.
I’m running OpenSuSE 11.2, 2.6.31.14-0.6, with xfce 4.6.1. /usr/sbin/gdm is dated 2010-09-15 17:12.
On 03/07/2011 06:36 AM, NonZ wrote:
>
> The gdm :0.log filled up my entire root partition. Incredibly, Linux
> continued to run!
cool!
> Please report at bugzilla.freedesktop.org
>
> I suspect that something may be wrong with Mesa 7.6.
did you report the bug? (posting to here does nothing toward resolving
the bug…)
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
No. It has only occurred three times so far (in the span of a week). I’m waiting for it to occur again, so that I can figure out what may be causing it (by a process of elimination).
I don’t like to clutter up the bug reports with unsubstantiated problems. (Better to clutter up the forums!)
I think I found the offending program: the voronoi screen-saver.
I wrote a bash script that monitors the log size and dumps a ps, fuser, and ls output whenver the log grows.
The fuser, unfortunately, was not helpful – it indicated only that the log was being accessed by Xorg. The ps output was helpful, however. It told me that the voronoi screen-saver was running at the time – and not much else. I ran voronoi twice in preview mode and reproduced the problem both times, each time within five minutes.
in (about) 2001 or so i was having occasional lockups and was advised
to NOT run random screen savers…
i have not since…
along the way i think i’ve learned that while voronoi might kill yours
it might not harm my system at all…nasty stuff inside those many
modules…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
