Help Ubuntu 8.10 X server has started crashing 1-2 per day

[Bart Silverstrim]

Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>> The problem is not importance so much as readablilty. If I open a
>> magazine, and the first line of an article is "go to the next page
>> first", I throw the magazine away. 
>>
>>   
> 
> Ok guys, rules and etiquette properly addressed, but then his Gnome 
> seems to have gone berserk. Any ideas?

Corrupted preference? Does it happen with a newly created user, or if a 
preference directory or two gets temporarily renamed by another username 
with admin rights, then log back in as his "normal" user?