Bug#496889: gnome-games: sol causes(?) X-server crash and lockup

[Julian Gilbey]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:30:02PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 28 août 2008 à 10:46 +0100, Julian Gilbey a écrit :
> > Package: gnome-games
> > Version: 1:2.22.3-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > [If I were able to confirm that sol really does cause lockups, then
> > this would be Severity: grave]
> > 
> > I have had a few X server crashes recently, and following the crash,
> > the X server then reports that it can't restart as there is a lockup.
> > The only way of restarting X then seems to be to reboot the machine,
> > which is a little extreme.
> > 
> > The only common factor among all of these is that I was playing
> > aisleriot at the time.  I have no idea at all whether this is
> > causitive or coincidental, and also no clue how to test this.
> 
> A X server crash is a bug in the X server, whatever is the application
> that causes it.
> 
> What would be interesting is the X server log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log*
> after the crash, or, even better, a stack trace of the X server with
> debugging symbols installed.

Darn, darn, darn.  It crashed again, but gdm then tried restarting the
X server.

So all I have is the core dump of the locked up server from when it
tried restarting.

   Julian