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

[Josselin Mouette]

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.

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