I get exactly the same behavior, but it is completely unpredictable which packages will cause it. Some do; some don't; the existence or nonexistence of a "changes" description appears to have no effect. Today I had five available updates; three of them caused the crash, while two could be clicked normally with no ill effect. Synaptic does not crash when showing information about the same updates.
My X.org log showed this after a few such crashes: AUDIT: Thu Jul 13 15:32:11 2006: 6468 X: client 2 rejected from local host AUDIT: Thu Jul 13 15:32:11 2006: 6468 X: client 4 rejected from local host AUDIT: Thu Jul 13 15:32:11 2006: 6468 X: client 3 rejected from local host AUDIT: Thu Jul 13 15:32:11 2006: 6468 X: client 5 rejected from local host AUDIT: Thu Jul 13 15:32:11 2006: 6468 X: client 3 rejected from local host There was also a backtrace but it was not logged into the file. My X session has also switched to VT8 instead of VT7. -- Show details at "update-manager" crashes Xorg server with NVIDIA's proprietary driver https://launchpad.net/bugs/52901 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
