forwarded 428388 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10525 kthxbye
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:52 +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg > Version: 1:7.2-3 > Severity: normal > > > I regularly have problems with X crashing hard, locking up the entire > display. When this occurs, the moue pointer still reposnds, but all > other input is ignored, animated screen elements freeze, and mousing to > alternate desktops becomes impossible. The only way to restore fucntion > has been to either reboot the machine with the Magic SysRq shortcuts, or > to log in from a remote machine and kill -9 the X server. > > The crash only occurs with OpenOffice, and most commonly happens when I > have opened a document attached to an email. OpenOffice will start fine, > but clicking (or using keyboard shortcuts) to access any of the dropdown > menus on the application menu bar will trigger the crash. The upstream bug report referenced above has quite extensive information about this problem, though unfortunately no fix yet. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
