Bug#661253: nvidia-glx: NVIDIA 295.20 causes random and unexpected X termination and hence logout

[Russel Winder]

Andreas,

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 15:21 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
[...]
> 
> did you have a look at the nvidia forum to see whether this probelm has
> been reported there?
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14&order=desc
> There is also an issue with 295.20 segfaulting in libnvidia-tls:
> http://bugs.debian.org/660189 - does this math your problem?

I had not checked with the forum.  I am not really a forum type person
don't go to them unless pushed...I'll see if I can do a search for
something this weekend.

Immediate reaction to the above is that I do use Chrome but not
Chromium.

> Russel, can you confirm that the machine becomes unresponsive after this
> crash? Or can you just relogin and continue to work?

For me X just dies and then GDM3 kicks in and shows a login screen.  The
machine is generally fine as far as I can tell.

I upgraded this morning after a few days gap and there was a new kernel
so I tried the machine again.  Sadly there was a X termination fail so I
have stopped using that machine until there is another kernel or NVIDIA
driver update. 

[...]

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