xorg crashes all the time
Submitted by matteo sisti sette
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
Xorg should be the most rock-solid part of a modern linux OS (second only to the kernel), because a xorg crash is effectively like turning off your computer (user logged out, all apps closed, all nonsaved data lost).
Actually it's the most unstable and unreliable piece of software I'm forced to use.
It crashes all the time with no apparent reason, at any moment and without a clear pattern.
There is one thing that almost systematically makes Xorg crash, which is running "disper -s" or "disper -S" (50% of the times it causes a xorg crash)
(however I have experienced lots of xorg crashes even before installing disper and even without using two screens).
Needless to say, even if the crash is triggered by some application's bug, xorg should never crash even in the presence of the most buggy and even malicious application.
Please let me know what logs I can upload next time it crashes (which will be very soon) so this can be fixed.