failsafe x is not working in karmic

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Binary package hint: xorg

Karmic no longer fails back to a known good fail safe graphics configuration if x crashes.
Instead X is continually being restarted upon failure.
This is a regression and is most likely related to how xsplash is being used.

To recreate this bug start the computer with a broken xorg.conf configuration.

In my case i somehow no longer had the kernel part of the nvidia driver installed.
X would then start and report that the kernel module could no longer be found, It would then restart as X has crashed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 20 23:15:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro1710
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: x11-common 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdLine: root=/dev/mapper/vg1-root ro splash vga=792 quiet
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 10/09/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A10
dmi.board.name: 0X805C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd10/09/2008:svnDellInc.:pnVostro1710:pvrNull:rvnDellInc.:rn0X805C:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Vostro1710
dmi.product.version: Null
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic