Hi Alberto,
There seem to be a lot of reports here, and it's hard to tell whether
they're all related. We are currently investigating reports of a
regression with very recent versions of Flash where the X server can
crash when playing videos, which it sounds like many of the users here
are reporting, but there are many other reports here which sound
completely unrelated to Flash, including the post from the original
reporter.
The root cause of the Flash regression is not yet known, but in the
meantime, we have found that it's possible to work around this
particular issue by disabling Flash's use of VDPAU for hardware
acceleration of video playback.
It sounds like a lot of people here are experiencing general stability
problems with Unity and the NVIDIA driver, and using other desktop
sessions, older drivers, or different GPU hardware/drivers avoids these
issues. I haven't personally seen issues like this on any of my machines
running Unity on Precise, nor am I aware of any reports like this coming
from our internal testing on various distributions, including Ubuntu.
I understand that the reports are of crashes which are random and
sporadic in nature, but any efforts to isolate specific workflows or
actions that seem to trigger the crashes or at least make it more likely
that X or the desktop session will crash so that these problems can be
reproduced on demand will make it much easier to investigate what is
happening. If there appear to be multiple problems that share similar
symptoms ("Nvidia driver causes xorg crash" can describe a multitude of
issues), they should preferably be separated out into distinct bug
reports. (It also seems like at least some people on this bug report are
reporting issues with non-NVIDIA drivers and/or hardware: these reports,
at least, definitely don't belong in an "Nvidia driver causes xorg
crash" report.)
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