nvidia-settings crashed with SIGSEGV

[MrChris]

Binary package hint: nvidia-settings

after upgrading jaunty to karmic, i occasionally get a pop-up on my taskbar saying that my x-server is broken and i should look up this link http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/

i tried to look up my config in system -> prerefences -> display when this crash occured

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 31 20:06:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-settings 180.25-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x818210: mov %edx,0x208(%eax)
 PC (0x00818210) ok
 source "%edx" ok
 destination "0x208(%eax)" (0x08c2f1a8) in non-writable VMA region: 0x08c2f000-0x08c30000 r--p None
SegvReason: writing VMA None
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
 ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2
 ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2
Title: nvidia-settings crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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