gksudo crashes xserver after changing screen resolution

[Andrew Lambert]

Binary package hint: xserver-xgl

I have an ATI Radeon x300 with an LCD screen on VGA and a television on S-Video.

When using the television, I change resolution from 1440x900 to 1024x768.

If, after switching back to 1440x900, I try to launch anything requiring my password, the screen flickers and then X crashes to my logon prompt.

After logging back in everything works fine. It also seems to only occur if Compiz-Fusion is turned on when I switch resolutions.

This is using Ubuntu 7.10 and the fglrx proprietary driver.

here's an excerpt from auth.log which I THINK is related:

Apr 21 13:28:10 guardian sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=andrew

[Andrew Lambert (andrew-boredomsoft)]

After upgrading to 8.04 (clean install) the problem has not recurred.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

xserver-xgl has been deprecated upstream, and removed from Intrepid. Closing the bug as won't fix.