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I installed Kubuntu 10.10 on a DELL Latitude D620 to use for someone who
is a novice user only wanting to use the Internet. For this purpose I
removed all plasma widgets from the desktop. I only wanted to have one
big shortcut of Firefox on the desktop to make it easy for the beginner
user. I placed the shortcut on the desktop and began to resize it. As
the original firefox icons resolution is relatively small it looks bad
when made bigger. I wanted an icon that is sharp, even bigger. I
downloaded a firefox logo png (256x256 size) and added it with the Menu
Editor to the Firefox shortcut in the Kicker Menu. Then from the Kicker
Menu I chose the option of having it placed on the desktop too. I
started to resize the shortcut and made it much bigger. As I
experimented with the size, the screen suddenly went all black...

It stayed black for a few seconds then logged me out. When trying to log
back I get a black screen and the KDE cursor turns to an X - and then
the system quickly logs me out again. Since the crash while trying to
resize the Firefox shortcut I cannot login to Kubuntu. When I restart it
tries to login by itself (as it should, as I chose the option of logging
the user in automatically when I installed the system), but after
approx. one-two seconds of a full black screen it throws me back to the
login screen. If I tried to login by hand, the result is the same.
Shutting off, restarting - nothing works. Always the same symptom.

When I'm starting the system in recovery mode and choose the option failsafeX then Kubuntu is unable to get to the desktop. 
I get the message: 

(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: invalid argument

I get this message like three dozen times

and also the following messages once:

/etc/gdm/failsafeXinit: line: 184: zenity: command not found
/etc/gdm/failsafeXinit: line: 47: zenity: command not found

waiting for X server to shut down    ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

All I did was trying to make a very big shortcut for Firefox (approx
256x256 like the png for it) on my desktop and Kubuntu crashed
completely. When I did the same in OpenSuse 11.3 it had no effect, no
crash.

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


** Tags: crash kde kubuntu
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[Kubuntu] Firefox desktop shortcut crashed whole system
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684648
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