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Had terrible trouble with my linux box at work today. After having used
a messed "10.04-from 9.10-upgraded" installation for some weeks, the
system failed completely (not even grub showing up...but that's another
story to tell).

I decided to reinstall LUCID from Live CD. Then the folowing bugs occured:
- Using the LiveCD and programs such as, e.g., dolphin or firefox, a system hard crash occured twice while backing up the most important files. Non-GUI programs worked fine (konsole), as well as the installer which was launched afterwards.
- The fresh installation failed desperately after just a few minutes of use, but only when GTK or QT apps were used. A yakuake terminal window could be used for several hours.

I thought this related to the graphics card and installing the
proprietary NVIDIA driver. Suddenly, no more bugs were encountered. I
was able to run multiple applications with/without desktop effects
enabled, OpenGL 3d accell worked fine etc.

The machine is a Intel Dual Core, Asus Mainboard, 8 GB RAM and Nvidia
GT220 card (so nothing special). I am using Kubuntu 10.04 LTS 64 bit.
The "sudden death" of the machine with the open source driver was a
shocking experience and definitely needs to be fixed ASAP. Logs etc. are
not at hand but I will try to collect some more data on monday.

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Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in _Unwind_Backtrace()
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533239
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