I agree fully in that back traces should be automated, and allot of people work very hard on making ubuntu better, for free. I hope you take the time to get help obtaining the information needed to better diagnose your issue, this is how the open source model works, people write the software for free, people fix the bugs for free, people report and gather information needed for these developers for free. Good luck with it, and I hope this doesn't cause you to leave Linux behind....
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shanen (Shannon Jacobs) Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?) Well, I can now confirm that the .gnomerc approach did not solve the problem. There was one crash since I added that file. Just to confirm I did it right, here is the cat result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .gnomerc export WINDOW_MANAGER=metacity I need to run another memory check from GRUB, but I basically don't believe it is hardware. Not sure because I think the best check is running in Windows, and I haven't been running the machine in Windows very much. What I can say is that I have never seen the crash when I was running in Windows, and there was about a year when I only used the machine in Windows. The crashes started only after Ubuntu was installed. With regards to the recommended "stack/back traces from X", this part seems too complicated for me, though I may tackle it again. However, what I'd much prefer is that I *NOT* spend lots of time trying to fix Ubuntu's problems. It's bad enough when I lose work in a crash--and I'm getting antsy now and feel the pressure to save this before it crashes. Look. Ubuntu is realizing that a crash has occurred. After the crash it does the disk scan and an extra reboot before it's ready to go again. That's the place where it should trigger it's debugging procedures and install whatever needs to be installed to do fancy traces or backtraces or whatever. If they can't fully automate it, at least the system should report the problem to the Ubuntu people and they should be able to get back to me (assuming there are enough similar crash events to be worth worrying about). Anyway, time to save it before it crashes again... -- Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159594 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. -- Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159594 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
