Comment 28 for bug 91849

Can those experiencing this issue try the following things? (In increasing order of challenge.)

1. Look in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log[.old] for backtraces like the one in the previous message. If you get a crash message but it looks different than the above, please post it here for comparison.

2. Try disabling composite (reportedly in 3130 some people said the issue went away when they disabled composite).

3. Try disabling DRI. Add this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

 Section "Module"
        ...
        Load "dri"
        ...
 EndSection

4. If you are on Gutsy and using the "intel" driver, test for this bug using this git snapshot of the driver:

  http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.1.1~git20071004-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

5. Get an strace output for xfce-terminal and upload here. This is done via something like,

  strace -o xfce4-terminal.trace xfce4-terminal

6. Get a backtrace through gdb manually. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingXorg for details on how to debug X crashes. (This is the most likely way we'll get to the bottom of this issue, so is probably going to be well worth the difficulty to set this up and try it.)