xsane and other apps fail with nvidia driver and xinerama

[Nathan Adams]

Binary package hint: xsane

I have two LG W2040T monitors installed.

When trying to launch xsane, the xsane windows appear briefly and then disappear.

When trying to start Alien Arena the introductory menus work, but upon launching an actual game Alien Area dies and exits.

Disabling Xinerama resolves both issues.

This problem has been confirmed with nvidia driver v173 and v185.

Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

nvidia-glx-185:
  Installed: 185.18.36-0ubuntu9
  Candidate: 185.18.36-0ubuntu9
  Version table:
 *** 185.18.36-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Linux version 2.6.31-9-rt (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) ) #152-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Oct 15 13:22:24 UTC 2009

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 24 09:20:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xsane 0.996-2ubuntu1.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.152-rt
SourcePackage: xsane
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-rt x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-panel:4347): GConf-WARNING **: Directory `/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen1/screen' was not being monitored by GConfClient 0x232b180
 (gnome-panel:4347): GConf-WARNING **: Directory `/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen1/screen' was not being monitored by GConfClient 0x232b180
 (nautilus:4348): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4383): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Nathan Adams, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases your release is EOL.

If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it.