Comment 24 for bug 446674

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:39:56AM -0000, jean-baptiste wrote:
> It's hard to reduce this particular one, but googleearth bug a lot. I
> type dmesg. Their is something related at googleearth at [18757.154000].

Whoa, from your dmesg output it appears you have something seriously
wrong with your memory. In fact that dmesg shows an issue in
check_for_bios_corruption that looks pretty serious.

Does the issue go away if you downgrade to the old mesa? Install from
this PPA:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-retro

[ 361.000976] Corrupted low memory at c00029bc (29bc phys) = 78bcbc7d

[15771.019435] stellarium[4571]: segfault at 1862677 ip 0180eb43 sp
bf8ed7a0 error 7 in radeon_dri.so[17be000+24f000]
[16027.985503] stellarium[4596]: segfault at 460b677 ip 045b7b43 sp
bfd549a0 error 7 in radeon_dri.so[4567000+24f000]
[16094.972517] stellarium[4640]: segfault at 4bef677 ip 04b9bb43 sp
bf827aa0 error 7 in radeon_dri.so[4b4b000+24f000]
[16466.158885] stellarium[5589]: segfault at 6892677 ip 0683eb43 sp
bf9bf520 error 7 in radeon_dri.so[67ee000+24f000]

[18757.154000] googleearth-bin: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x40d0
[18757.154008] Pid: 6983, comm: googleearth-bin Tainted: G W 2.6.31-12-generic #41-Ubuntu
[18757.154011] Call Trace:
[18757.154026] [<c0568fde>] ? printk+0x18/0x1a
[18757.154033] [<c01b3a00>] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x340/0x480
[18757.154038] [<c01b3c4f>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x10f/0x120
[18757.154042] [<c01b3ca7>] __get_free_pages+0x17/0x30
[18757.154047] [<c01dbfaf>] __kmalloc+0xdf/0x180
[18757.154086] [<f0ea1e48>] radeon_cp_cmdbuf+0xa98/0xbf0 [radeon]
[18757.154093] [<c03143f8>] ? copy_from_user+0x38/0x130
[18757.154123] [<f07da6c0>] drm_ioctl+0x180/0x360 [drm]
[18757.154146] [<f0ea13b0>] ? radeon_cp_cmdbuf+0x0/0xbf0 [radeon]
[18757.154151] [<c0310416>] ? rb_insert_color+0x76/0x100
[18757.154157] [<c012e9b1>] ? __dequeue_entity+0x21/0x40
[18757.154166] [<c01f0413>] vfs_ioctl+0x73/0x90
[18757.154169] [<c01f06e1>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x71/0x310
[18757.154173] [<c01f09df>] sys_ioctl+0x5f/0x80
[18757.154178] [<c010334c>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb