Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg
I noticed an huge amount of xorg crashes on a lot of differents occasions. Crashes always happens when I do one of thoses actions : - use firefox : firefox usual crash itself when it does parse intensive javascript (gmail...), but that's not this bug object. Whatever the action I do, it can, randomly (and very very rarely), totaly freeze xorg (excepted sometimes the mouse). On my computer (1 Go of RAM, AMD 64, Ubuntu Dapper Drake x86 with k7 kernel) it happened 1 time, but on my girlfriend's one (laptop, 256Mo of RAM, Pentium II, Ubuntu Dapper Drake x86) it happened several times - use.... a lot of RAM. Happened a lot of time with Eclipse, and mathematical applications. The crash that made me do that report was with Qalculate, when I asked it to derivate a 45000 entries plot. Then, that bug is quite embarrassing as bug, but could be more : if a privilege-less user can crash xorg by surfing the web, and the crash is obviously related to memory, there is (I think) a high risk to have some security hole... Oh, and I play the music using mpd. Then I can be sure that xorg is the only freezed software (even if it locks keyboard...), because the music is still playing when it crashes. And here is my uname -a : Linux HAL 2.6.15-26-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 03:40:32 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed ** Visibility changed to: Public -- Xorg crashes on various occasions https://launchpad.net/bugs/56184 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs