Comment 16 for bug 529230

I can't check right now with this laptop w/out nvidia.

But with this Intel GPU, don't exist. :S

2010/3/10 John S. Gruber <email address hidden>

> Marc: New for me, too. Plymouth is new as a standard feature, if I'm not
> mistaken, and many are working to minimize the number of times the
> screen flashes or clears and on getting boot processes to start as early
> as possible to minimize boot time.
>
> If you don't mind me asking, what version of plymouth are you running?
> Can you look to see if /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/plymouth
> exists and if so what it contains. It should probably not exist. If it
> does exist it probably contains just two lines.
>
> --
> X server crashes when enter key is pressed
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/529230
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>
> Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> kosh@isis:~$ lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
> Release: 10.04
> kosh@isis:~$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg-core | egrep -e ^i
> ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
> Xorg X server - core server
>
> Sometimes the X server crashes when I press the enter key. It happens
> seldomly, so I can still work, but sometimes X will just die right when I
> press enter. This has happened in oocalc, mplayer and gnome-terminal, and
> the application does not receive the key press event (or has no time to act
> on it).
>
> I have attached my X server log which shows a backtrace:
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4a2528]
> 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x6522d) [0x46522d]
> 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fe52032b000+0xf920) [0x7fe52033a920]
> 3: /lib/libc.so.6 (__select+0x13) [0x7fe51f0e4c53]
> 4: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x1ba) [0x45f5fa]
> 5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x308d2) [0x4308d2]
> 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2614a) [0x42614a]
> 7: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fe51f024c4d]
> 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x25cf9) [0x425cf9]
>
> Caught signal 3 (Quit). Server aborting
>
> I first noticed this problem on February 21st, so after this upgrade:
>
> [UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.3.902-1ubuntu12 -> 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
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