[Tfug] thesaurus.com restarts xorg/gdm!

[bpoag at comcast.net]

Yeesh. Just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it. Now, a single badly-formatted webpage can cause an entire desktop to implode. That's awesome. 

Reminds me of a good joke.. 

Q: I have a problem with (fill in the blank) on my Linux desktop. Can you help me out? 
A: Sure. What time of day did this occur? 
Q: .....Does that even matter? 
A: Yes. 
Q: ....Why? 
A: Because desktop Linux isn't ready for prime time. 

Although, I hear 2010 is the Year of the Linux Desktop...lol. 

;) 

// OS X FTW. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JD Rogers" <rogersjd at gmail.com> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:41:31 PM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: [Tfug] thesaurus.com restarts xorg/gdm! 

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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