Looking at that strace and a bit of poking around on this box... gnome-display-properties opens a socket and assigns it fd 3 for x. It writes some data and RANDR to that socket. After another read on that same socket, it drops core.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/svn/systems/scripts$ xrandr Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". RandR extension missing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/svn/systems/scripts$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 1700 (rev a1) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 1700 (rev a1) These two cards are both used with Xinerama if that helps any. -- gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in screen_info_new() - i855, fglrx, radeonhd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198951 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs