You have been subscribed to a public bug: repro: Try to login to a machine which is standing at GDM and then run apport-collect.
Doing exactly that is a critically important use case for xorg crashes because if you login the xorg.log gets reset and whatever was in xorg.log.old is permanently lost. Maybe this bug only affects the xorg hook for apport (not sure?) mn...@zueco:~$ apport-collect 368049 Logging into Launchpad... The authorization page (https://edge.launchpad.net/+authorize-token?oauth_token=8Bwts9Lrkwnz8M5TqtZf) should be opening in your browser. After you have authorized this program to access Launchpad on your behalf you should come back here and press <Enter> to finish the authentication process. Downloading bug... Bug title: compiz crashes gnome desktop using default ati driver (radeon X600) Collecting apport information for source package xserver-xorg-video-ati... Can't open display xdpyinfo: unable to open display "". Error: unable to open display Cannot open display "default display" No protocol specified Error: Cannot open display ":0" Exiting Uploading additional information to Launchpad bug... short text data... attachment: Dependencies.txt... attachment: LsHal.txt... attachment: LsMod.txt... attachment: LsPci.txt... attachment: XorgConf.txt... attachment: XorgLog.txt... attachment: XorgLogOld.txt... attachment: system.txt... ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Status: Triaged -- apport sometimes prints "Cannot open display" when run over ssh https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/368282 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
