this just happened to me too on a Karmic system with a GeForce GTX 280M and the nvidia185 drivers.
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- NVIDIA - Xorg crashes (empty backtrace) with segfault OR "general protection" in ld-2.10.1.so https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507233 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp