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

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 496889 xserver-xorg-core
thanks

Le vendredi 29 août 2008 à 01:11 +0100, Julian Gilbey a écrit :
> 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 :
> > > 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.

Such a dump should be useful to track down the bug. I’m reassigning the
bug to X so that they can ask you the information they need.

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