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[Bryce Harrington <714829@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel, for the crash we really gotta have a full backtrace, either
via apport automatically or by hand via gdb.

Some directions are available at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing

The crash (this one and the ones experienced previously) are due to
programming errors in how X handles out of memory situations.  So, it's
definitely worth fixing (and I look forward to getting your full
backtrace), but it doesn't solve the underlying issue which is why are
the text boxes running out of memory?  And is it system memory or
graphics memory that's running out?

Unfortunately, these logs don't shed light on this question, but I think
you could analyze it a bit, by watching memory counts while the
installation proceeds.  You'll have to figure out what the best way in
your infrastructure to do this, but I might run top, cat /proc/meminfo,
xrestop, cat /proc/slabinfo, etc. and watch for a number that either
diminishes towards 0 or goes up unboundedly until the X crash occurs.

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Bryce Harrington (bryce)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/714829

Title:
  Xorg segfaults during LiveCD installation using preseed file