Comment 7 for bug 224966

In previous message, John Vivirito suggests crash report is invalid without /var/crash files or automatic apport report, and sets bug to Invalid.

I agree with John that automatic mechanisms for reporting bugs are preferable, since users can never really know what a developer needs to locate the problem.
However, apport does not deploy to do anything in this situation.

There were no /var/crash files generated.

apport 0.108 is part of Hardy and is installed.

As documented, apport is a gui application that runs under X and asks, when an application abort, if the user if they want to file an automatic crash reports.
If X is dead, apport, which would ordinarily pop up a dialog to ask the user what to do (send report, or restart program) is probably killed with all the user processes that rely on the X server
connection to continue. If the X server is dead, there is no way for apport to pop up its dialog boxes.

So far, the only application I have used that dies when scrolling is firefox. So this doesnt seem to be isolated to Xorg or compiz,
though they are implicated in the /var/log/messages log.

I would think the report of this bug from two different sources would elevate it to "Confirmed", but perhaps in the
rush to clear reports this aspect of the problem went unnoticed.

Clearing the report as Invalid seems a bit premature, I have put it back to "new". I would be willing to cooperate further,
if it can help. A link has been provided that crashes X reliably for me when firefox is used to view it on Ubuntu 8. Does this link crash your X
as well, John?