X crashes when I run tuxmath

[Caroline Ford]

I am another newbie to Ubuntu, so any help would be appreciated. I've have had Ubuntu 8.10 up and running since 3/6/09. Three days ago, out of the blue, when attempting to open TuxMath, the screen briefly goes black, closes all open applications, and then displays the login screen. I have the system setup up to automatically log in at boot and just enter the passwords for admin and network privledges. After the login screen comes up, I leave it blank and hit enter, and it brings up the normal desktop, as if it were a fresh boot. No applications are open and my network connection get reestablished.

I upgraded to OpenOffice 3.0 about a week before this issue started, and TuxMath was working fine. I have made no changes, other than recommended updates, at the time the issue started. I have tried removing TuxMath and reloading it several times and the issue is still present.

My son loves this app since it's much more fun than his school's flash cards. Any suggestions?

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

I think this is a bug in X Windows rather than tuxmath as what you've described happens when X crashes (it goes back to the login screen). I presume the machine doesn't reboot.

I've added xorg to the bug - they will need to get information from you in order to work out what's going on.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Don't think this is a tuxmath bug - user is describing being thrown back to gdm. Allocating to xorg.

[Jordan Erickson (lns)]

Caroline, do you remember https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tuxpaint/+bug/269082 ? Have you set/unset the --nosound option and tested that way?

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

It's not my bug - I moved it from a question.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for reporting this bug, however not enough information was included for us to troubleshoot this problem as an X.org issue. If you are still able to reproduce this issue on the current development release and wish to continue the investigation please refer to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting for guidance on how to report X.org bugs, and file a new bug or reopen this one with additional information.