Comment 23 for bug 197645

Could this be simply an incompatibility between the xrandr library and
xserver-xgl? Can anyone using Xgl without an NVIDIA card (ATI,
whatever) confirm or deny it?

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Recon69 <email address hidden> wrote:
> I had this problem every time i tried to use the restricted nvidia
> drivers. This problem went away after I removed xserver-xgl from my
> system. As far as I can see installing the nvidia-glx-new drivers should
> probably automatically remove the xserver-xgl package if it's installed.
> but i am no expert.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
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> gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in rw_screen_list_outputs()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197645
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> Status in Source Package "gnome-settings-daemon" in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
>
> Upon restart after update on 3/2/08, theme was messed up.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Mar 2 09:08:06 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.21.91-0ubuntu5
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdline: gnome-settings-daemon
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
> StacktraceTop:
> rw_screen_list_outputs ()
> configuration_apply_stored ()
> gsd_xrandr_manager_start ()
> ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libxrandr.so
> ?? ()
> Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in rw_screen_list_outputs()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-11-386 i686
> UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy kqemu lpadmin mythtv netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner video
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