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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #602736
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 602736

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Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr) wrote : Re: [gm45] GPU lockup 1e86c0de

Andreas, with the script /usr/share/apport/apport-gpu-error-intel.py we are (ab)using the crash report system to automatically collect information about a GPU error. So it is not really the application apport-gpu-error-intel.py that has crashed.

Often a GPU error will cause the computer to freeze or behave erratically in other ways. This makes it hard to collect any information manually and this is why this automatic information collection is useful. Sometimes the GPU error can happen during the shutdown of the computer and may therefore not be noticed. Apport will in both cases notice the crash report next time it boots and will offer to submit a bug report.

Did you notice any strange behaviour before apport offered to report this bug? Has this only happened once or does it happen regularly?