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

[Thomas Wolf]

On 02/20/2009 11:22 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>    
Today it hasn't happened once.

It started after the installation of Ubuntu 8.10 in January.  And it 
seems to be perfectly random - last time it happened after I left my 
desktop unused for a couple minutes and then, after re-awakening it (by 
moving mouse), the first thing I did is to switch to another virtual 
desktop - BAM.  Before that, It happened as I was trying to switch apps 
with alt-tab.  So I have no way of reproducing the problem.  Therefore, 
I can't really tell if it would happen with a newly created user.

One possible datapoint: It has never happened to me at home - where I 
don't have the laptop connected to the laptop (and its second monitor 
and keyboard).  In the bug I originally referred to (or maybe it was in 
the bug I found in the Fedora support site), the person had the same 
crash happening when he used a KVM switch - so perhaps that's the clue.  
If that's it, then this must be a regression bug as this never happened 
on 8.04.

I may just wait for some kind developer to look into the bug:
         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/290252
Someone kindly explained to me that the "Triaged" status is actually a 
good thing - it's been verified to be a genuine bug which has enough 
data to work on.

One last question: can the latest Xorg server code (1.6?) be installed 
on 8.10?  If so, where can I get the packages?  Because I remember that 
in the Fedora support someone eventually found the problem to be there 
and fixed it in 1.6.

thnx,
tom


tom