X-Window-System crashes due to Kopete

[Mebus]

I am using Kopete (4:3.5.9-0ubuntu1) with Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04. As soon as these yellow bubbles of Kopete pop up to inform me about new messages and I click them, the X enviornment restarts and I have to log in to Ubuntu again.

I'm using the Nvidia drivers:

nvidia-glx-new, nvidia-kernel-common

Having X restartet from time to time may result in data loss.

[Ogni (ogni)]

I have the same problem using Kubuntu. It only crashes if i don't have a chat window opened already.

[Dariel Dato-on (odd-rationale)]

Perhaps you could supply more information to help triage this bug. /var/log/Xorg.0.log is a good place to look. Also, try starting "kopete" in a terminal and see if there are any error messages.

Hope that helps!

[Mebus (mebus)]

I have found this error message in: /var/log/gdm/:0.log

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c780e]
1: [0xb7f3e420]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

Best wishes

Mebus

[Mebus (mebus)]

same here.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This isn't a GDM problem, so reassigning to xorg.

[Mebus (mebus)]

I also found evidence of the bug in other distros:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41525
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110416

The problems seems not to occur with the older nvidia drivers.

[Mebus (mebus)]

found more links:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156851
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=395729

[Ogni (ogni)]

as there are references and logfiles and so on...confirmed

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Confirmed against the wrong package though. This is a NVIDIA binary driver bug, so re-assigning.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Current development version does not have this issue

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I think the hardy task is likely wontfix due to the age, and the proprietariness of the driver, but will leave it as medium priority in case someone wants to propose a backport.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) is EOL.