<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western">Hi (sorry for cross-posting to ubuntu-users, but I'm not sure which is the right forum for bringing bugs to developers attention): My X server, since installing 8.10 in January, has been mysteriously crashing every now and then - and it seems to happen more frequently lately. Environment: I'm running 8.10 on a Dell Latitude D820 (1280x800) on a docking station connected to a secondary monitor (1600x1200) with my desktops spanning both monitors. The system is totally up-to-date. uname -a: Linux beowulf 2.6.27-12-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 5 09:26:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux When the server crashes, after restarting, I can see a backtrace in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: 0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x79) [0x80c3009] 1: [0xb80e9400] 2: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(XkbWriteXKBGeometry+0x181) [0x81a9ed1] 3: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(XkbWriteXKBKeymapForNames+0x610) [0x81a9210] 4: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(XkbDDXLoadKeymapByNames+0x1d7) [0x81b41c7] 5: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(ProcXkbGetKbdByName+0x40e) [0x819041e] 6: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8195668] 7: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(Dispatch+0x34f) [0x808c89f] 8: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(main+0x47d) [0x8071d1d] 9: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7cef685] 10: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8071101] Saw signal 11. Server aborting. I did a quick google search to see if this is a known issue and came across what appears to be similar and added my comment there: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/290252">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/290252</a> But I'm not sure what to do next - it really is quite annoying. Is there, perhaps, a fix available with a later version of X? There was a similar bug reported in the Fedora 10 support lists and the resolution there *seemed* to be that it's fixed in 1.6? Is that something (a package) I can update in 8.10 or do I have to wait for Jaunty? I am attaching the aforementioned Xorg.0.log.old as well as .xsession_errors.) Let me know what other info I can provide. Thanks for any info (and novice instructions on how to fix things). tom </div> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </body> </html>