Confirmed fixed here on my end as well, prior to that I had the package
versions locked in synaptic.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Eric Casteleijn <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Brian:
>
> No icons, no taskbars, desktop background is there. When I click
> somewhere the taskbars seem to appear very briefly and then disappear
> again, so I guess something's crashing. Will investigate more, and file
> a new bug, if it's not already there.
>
> --
> [karmic] Xorg (and anything GLX) crashes on startup
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429003
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>
> Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in eglibc in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 in Ubuntu Karmic: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> As of after updates at 2009-09-13 ca. 16:00, Xorg and anything using GLX
> (eg. glxinfo) crashes on startup.
> The only thing that seems to have been changed then is the upgrade of libc6
> to 2.10.1-0ubuntu11.
>
> Log of crashing Xorg run is attached. The corresponding gdb backtrace is:
> $ gdb /usr/bin/Xorg CoreDump
> ...
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x278da3c0 in ?? ()
> #1  0x00289d8d in *__GI___backtrace (array=0xbfdab960, size=32) at
> ../sysdeps/i386/backtrace.c:121
> #2  0x08133d1b in xorg_backtrace () at ../../os/backtrace.c:39
> #3  0x080c7b95 in xf86SigHandler (signo=11) at
> ../../../../hw/xfree86/common/xf86Events.c:387
> #4  <signal handler called>
> #5  *__GI_____strtol_l_internal (nptr=0xbfdac02d "001 GLX",
> endptr=0xbfdac028, base=10, group=0, loc=0x0) at strtol_l.c:246
> #6  0x001d6667 in *__GI_strtol (nptr=0xbfdac02d "001 GLX",
> endptr=0xbfdac028, base=10) at strtol.c:110
> #7  0x0807355e in RegisterExtensionNames (extEntry=0x8387690) at
> ../../dix/registry.c:168
> #8  0x0809e33a in AddExtension (name=0x635ebc "GLX", NumEvents=17,
> NumErrors=12, MainProc=0x6135f0, SwappedMainProc=0, CloseDownProc=0x613430,
>    MinorOpcodeProc=0x809da10 <StandardMinorOpcode>) at
> ../../dix/extension.c:145
> #9  0x006132f5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
> #10 0x00635ebc in ?? () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
> #11 0x00000011 in ?? ()
> #12 0x0000000c in ?? ()
> #13 0x006135f0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
> #14 0x00613560 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
> #15 0x00613430 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
> #16 0x0809da10 in ?? () at ../../dix/extension.c:219
> #17 0x080ec7c5 in InitExtensions (argc=4, argv=0xbfdac2d4) at
> ../../../../mi/miinitext.c:551
> #18 0x080722b8 in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfdac2d4, envp=0xbfdac2e8) at
> ../../dix/main.c:319
>
> Glxinfo backtrace looks like this:
> $ unset DISPLAY
> $ gdb glxinfo
> ...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/glxinfo
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> *__GI_____strtol_l_internal (nptr=0xbffff57a "\t26782\n", endptr=0x0,
> base=0, group=0, loc=0x0) at strtol_l.c:246
> 246     strtol_l.c: No such file or directory.
>        in strtol_l.c
> (gdb) bt
> #0  *__GI_____strtol_l_internal (nptr=0xbffff57a "\t26828\n", endptr=0x0,
> base=0, group=0, loc=0x0) at strtol_l.c:246
> #1  0x0045b6b6 in *__GI___strtol_internal (nptr=0xbffff57a "\t26828\n",
> endptr=0x0, base=0, group=0) at strtol.c:99
> #2  0x006bac15 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> #3  0xbffff57a in ?? ()
> #4  0x00000000 in ?? ()
>
> Note that it crashes at a very early stage, not probably even contacting X
> server yet (since DISPLAY is unset).
>
> Packages:
>
> ii  libc6                                         2.10.1-0ubuntu11
>                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libc6-dbg                                     2.10.1-0ubuntu11
>                   GNU C Library: detached debugging symbols
> ii  libc6-dev                                     2.10.1-0ubuntu11
>                   GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
> ii  libc6-i686                                    2.10.1-0ubuntu11
>                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx
> 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3        A free implementation of the
> OpenGL API -- G
> ii  mesa-utils
>  7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3        Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
> ii  mesa-utils-dbgsym
> 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3        debug symbols for package
> mesa-utils
> ii  nvidia-185-kernel-source                      185.18.36-0ubuntu2
>                   NVIDIA binary kernel module source
> ii  nvidia-185-libvdpau                           185.18.36-0ubuntu2
>                   Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
> ii  nvidia-glx-185                                185.18.36-0ubuntu2
>                   NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
> ii  nvidia-settings                               180.25-0ubuntu1
>                  Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
> ii  rss-glx                                       0.9.0-2ubuntu3
>                   Really Slick Screensavers GLX Port
> ii  xorg-docs-core                                1:1.4-5
>                  Core documentation for the X.org X Window Sy
> ii  xserver-xorg-core                             2:1.6.3-1ubuntu6
>                   Xorg X server - core server
> ii  xserver-xorg-core-dbg                         2:1.6.3-1ubuntu6
>                   Xorg - the X.Org X server (debugging symbols
>