Serious bug ... xserver-xorg-core update kills X

[Wouter Stomp]

On 8/22/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> * Ian Soutar:
> > Please send out a warning.   It may apply only to this computer but then
> > again it may be a serious bug that affects others too.
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> Not just you - see
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/57153 and
> list of duplicated.
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> The problem seems to have been fixed very fast.
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> Matt

Is there anything that can be done to prevent these kind of things of
happening in the future??? For the not so computer literate users,
breaking X is about the worst thing that can happen and they probably
don't know how to fix this themselves, even now the actual fix has
been released.

Wouter.