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["shanen \(Shannon Jacobs\)" <shanen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I finally got this bug into a can yesterday. I thought it had gone away,
but it started showing up again, though very rarely. Then yesterday, I
found a way to reproduce it. At least it worked twice in a row. If
someone will tell me what to do, maybe it will be possible to diagnose
it now.

The situation that triggers the bug is on a completely fresh
installation of the latest Ubuntu 9.10, with the updates to yesterday.
As soon as the machine is booted, start Firefox, and then open a
terminal window. The command "sudo update-grub" will ask for the
password and then immediately go to the white screen of death. I'm not
sure what to do from this position, or how to set up the machine to
capture the required information, but this is the first time I've
apparently found a way to reproduce the crash.

I want to help, and I'm willing to try to fix this OLD bug--but I admit
that at this point I'm increasingly doubtful that Ubuntu is worth the
effort. I am pretty strongly motivated by my love of freedom, and my
desire to be free of Microsoft and Apple--but Ubuntu seems to be going
in the wrong direction in terms of offering a viable option that will
bring us more freedom. I absolutely cannot recommend recent versions of
Ubuntu to anyone. This 9.10 release is totally crippled in the sound on
many machines that I've tested, which already tells me that they testing
was totally inadequate. This old bug of the WSOD is still around after a
couple of years, so it is obvious that the real cause has never been
found and fixed. I desperately want Ubuntu to succeed, but it is
increasingly obvious that this economic model is NOT working to provide
sufficient testing.

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