It's happening to me, too. I've used three versions; one from 2008, 2009 (in the repos), and the most recent 2010. I've also compiled 2010, and the ppa listed above, with the same results.
I also have an oooold ATI card in my laptop (radeon mobility 9600...and it doesn't have any true drivers for it anymore), so I don't think it's the video drivers. (though I'm going to see if there's something else available for this old card...) These are the errors I've been able to collect: ~$ pcbnew > output.txt 2>&1 & pcbnew: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. and from /var/log/syslog kdm[777]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly -- pcbnew crash in lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs