[Tfug] thesaurus.com restarts xorg/gdm!

[Phil Simpson]

Which version of Flash are you using?

Is the OS 64 bit?  If yes, are you using nspluginwrapper with 32 bit
Flash or are you using the 64 bit beta version?

Regards,

Phil Simpson
Systems Administrator
623.252.2547
http://www.google.com/profiles/pgsimpso



On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, JD Rogers <rogersjd at gmail.com> wrote:
> So uh, my wife pointed firefox to thesaurus.com and got instantly
> presented with gdm greeter! Bye bye unsaved work.
>
> The worst thing is I'm not sure what is actually crashing, i.e. xorg,
> gnome-session, etc. This is Ubuntu Lucid on my wife's laptop, and I
> found that if I remove flashplugin, it doesn't crash. I'm not one to
> expect flash to be stable, but a flashplugin crash should at most
> crash the browser and not suddenly restart X resulting in my wife
> loosing unsaved data in ooffice etc.
>
> I'd love to file a bug report, so my question is, where do I look to
> try to narrow down the possibilities. I see nothing interesting in
> syslog, dmesg, xorg.0.log or ~/.xsession-errros and I can't think what
> else to check.  Any ideas welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> JDR
> --
> Jeremy D. Rogers, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Biomedical Engineering
> Northwestern University
>
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