Which is the correct way to report a bug ?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 16:50:22 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 16:40 +0200, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
> Il 28/07/2009 15:47, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 15:49 +0200, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
> >> I'm aware about bugzilla but I'd like to be sure HOW to report this.
> 
> >> The problem seems related to the intel driver.
> >>   From /var/log/messages the first line is:
> >>
> >> "Kernel BUG at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem:2241!"
> >
> > Start be checking if anyone has already reported it. In this case, it
> > looks very much like one I reported recently:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510948
> >
> 
> Thanks Patrick, looks very similar but it's different!
> I was effected by the same "mesa bug" as well, but downgrading mesa 
> don't resolve my problem.
> 
> I filled this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514240

I think the real problem is likely to be in the Intel driver code, it's
just that one version of Mesa tickles it and another doesn't. The fact
that the Kernel itself reports a bug is indicative of this. A library
should not be able to cause this kind of behaviour under any
circumstances.

poc




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