Comment 12 for bug 487185

I apparently just experienced the same problem, and it crashed my X server. I was writing some e-mails in Thunderbird and suddenly X crashed and restarted. I was running just the laptop screen at the time, but often I use an external screen as well, if that matters.

I have a Fujitsu S7020 with Intel 915GM/GMS/910GML graphics, running Ubuntu 9.10 and kernel 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP.

I'm a little confused by the syslog since it appears that Gnome was already dead when the kernel logged the EDID error.

Feb 2 11:40:53 goedel ntpd[2248]: frequency initialized 9.256 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
Feb 2 11:40:54 goedel kernel: [ 52.956014] eth2: no IPv6 routers present
Feb 2 11:40:57 goedel gdm-simple-greeter[2149]: WARNING: Unable to lookup user name data: Success
Feb 2 11:40:57 goedel gdm-simple-greeter[2149]: WARNING: Unable to parse history: (null) 2#012
Feb 2 11:41:03 goedel wpa_supplicant[1275]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Feb 2 11:41:15 goedel gnome-session[2281]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'at-spi-registryd-wrapper.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/gnome-session/helpers/at-spi-registryd-wrapper" (No such file or directory)
Feb 2 11:41:15 goedel kernel: [ 73.806724] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block.
Feb 2 11:41:15 goedel kernel: [ 73.806730] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data
Feb 2 11:41:15 goedel kernel: [ 73.969558] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block.
Feb 2 11:41:15 goedel kernel: [ 73.969563] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data
Feb 2 11:41:15 goedel kernel: [ 74.112981] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block.
Feb 2 11:41:15 goedel kernel: [ 74.112986] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data
Feb 2 11:41:21 goedel gnome-session[2281]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'hplip-systray.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "hp-systray" (No such file or directory)
Feb 2 11:41:21 goedel pulseaudio[2334]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.