XServer Sun24 keeps crashing (Creator3D)

[Peter Becker <pbecker@meganesia.int.gu.edu.au>]

Hello,

has anybody else experienced XServer crashes with the 24bit Sun XServer 
from Potato on a Ultra10 Creator 3D? I have a lot of reproducable 
crashes in KDE plus running Acroread remotely. The window is at least 
partly visible but then the server is gone.

One way to get this is:
> ssh -X otherMachine
> acroread

and that's it. If the user never started Acrobat Reader before it will 
display the licence notice but after the main window is displayed (even 
with PDF if given from command line) the server will vanish without any 
comment (at least I wasn't able to find it).

The same applies for a local KDE installation. A bunch of programs 
crashes like the filemanager, the control center and some of the smaller 
apps.

Any idea what goes wrong? Any idea how to fix/workaround it?

Thanks,
  Peter