Another work-around seems to be to unset the environment variable XAUTHORITY when upgrading or restarting atieventsd.
As in "XAUTHORITY= aptitude dist-upgrade". -- After gdm upgrade no X cliens can be run https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196464 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs