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[Bryce Harrington <720235@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel,

I think you have have stumbled onto our elusive out-of-memory-
whoops-X-crashes bug.  I have a *suspicion* that X crashing is just a
symptom here, and that the bug is not actually in X, but something else
unique to the livecd environment which leaks memory badly.  Once memory
gets low enough, X can't calloc video memory and boom.

However, I have no idea what is leaking memory.  But one thing you could
do to help would be to repeat the process of reproducing the bug, and
while doing that run top, cat /proc/meminfo in a loop, xrestop, or any
other memory analysis tools you can think of.  Look for a process
gobbling memory like it's going out of style.  It would be really nice
to know whether it is X doing it or some other process in the system.

** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in BlockHandler() (LiveCD environment, image
  from 20110216)