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(In reply to comment #1)
> It would be really nice to know where the last call to XIDAlloc was before the
> one that fails, and for that I'd love to have a minimal test case.
Indeed; I'm afraid I can't say more about this myself, but I asked for a reproduction recipe on the downstream bug a few days ago. Once we have a way to reproduce this, we can strip that down to a test case.
> Any chance these applications are using libX11 from more than one thread?
Some certainly do, but amongst the many duplicates are a lot of progams which are single-threaded; for example services-admin (from gnome-system-tools, LP#432122) or gigolo (LP#468544)
> It looks like a fair number of the reported stack traces are
> single-threaded, making that an unlikely explanation for those reports. :-)
> It's possible there are two separate bugs here, I suppose...
Possibly. It seems that about half of the reports are in gnome-panel and firefox, but since they are also much more popular than the apps mentioned above that kind of bias is expected.
> In lieu of a minimal test, perhaps you can tell me which X extensions these
> applications have in common? Perhaps the client library for some extension
> allocates an XID but is missing a SyncHandle call; if the next X request also
> tries to allocate an XID you'd get this assertion failure.
The bugs unfortunately don't have Xorg logs, but I don't think that they will differ that much between different installations. I searched Launchpad for a few Xorg logs for various drivers, and in fact for a given graphics driver the extension lists were exactly identical (I took samples of about 5 per driver):
common for intel, ati, fglrx, nvidia: MIT-SCREEN-SAVER XFree86-
extra extensions for fglrx: ATIFGLRXDRI FGLRXEXTENSION GLESX AMDXVOPL (I suppose those are uninteresting)
I asked in the downstram bug for a few Xorg logs from those people who can reproduce the crash. Perhaps it will turn out that they are all using the same graphics driver.