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Yet another machine that ran fine in Feisty, but which is having serious
problems in Gutsy. This is supposed to be an upgrade? Machine just
crashes to a white screen of death, and only solution appears to be to
pull the plug and reboot. It seems to be instantly fatal and leaves
nothing in the logs--but maybe I'm not looking at the right place there.

This has happened several times in the last few days, so it might be
related to a recent update. Searching in bug reports here, I was not
able to find any exact matches. In the instance a few minutes ago, only
three programs were running: Firefox, terminal, and BOINC (running the
World Community Grid).

The machine is a Sharp PC-WA70L with an AMD Sempron CPU and ATI
graphics. The chip is identified as a Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE), if
I'm looking at the right information with the Device Manager.

Glad to provide whatever diagnostic information I can or even run a few
tests if it will help--but I don't want to dedicate that much of my time
to attempting to repair my tools. These Gutsy problems have already
driven me back to Windows several times... I really like Ubuntu and have
been using it and recommending it for a couple of years now, but these
kinds of problems really strain our relationship--especially when they
seem to be getting bigger, not smaller.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete

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Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/159594
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