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[Johannes Ring <615250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently got a report about the same bug from one of the system
administrators at Simula. After that I tried to reproduce it on several
different virtual machines (sid, natty, maverick and lucid) and with
different configurations of DOLFIN and I found that it no longer happens
in the latest development version. The problem always occurred when
using DOLFIN 0.9.9, either when using the Debian/Ubuntu packages or when
everything is built from source with Dorsal.

@Chris: can you confirm that this behavior is gone in the development
version?

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Title:
  Failed X connection corrupts root filesystem

Status in DOLFIN:
  New

Bug description:
  I noticed this problem a while ago, and just fell victim to it again
  this morning.

  I was doing a dolfin install from bzr as root on Ubuntu Lucid 10.4 64-bit server.
  When running a demo, if the X forwarding is not correctly set, then the code crashes in a plot() call, with a PETSC error. Subsequently, the root file system is severely damaged, and the only option seems to be a complete reinstall of the OS.

  I know, this can be avoided by not running the demos as root, but it is an easy mistake to make after doing a system-wide install.
  I presume it is a bug in viper.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks

  Chris Richardson