Bug#433117: Rapid scrolling between desktop panels while running Totem crashes gdm with "gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error"

[Fred Korz <korz@optonline.net>]

Brice,

  It's solid now.

  I started an mpeg video w/ audio in Totem and then jumped back and
forth between portions of my 2x2 desktop for about 2 minutes like a
hyperactive channel-surfer on speed with a satellite remote in hand.

  Previously to switch away from the part of the desktop with Totem
playing and then jump back a fraction of a second later was enough to
be blown back to the desktop login screen.

  I'll try one or two more tests tonight or tomorrow night, but the
crashing is either fixed or much harder to trigger.

Thanks,
Fred

   Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:17:24 -0400
   From: Fred Korz <korz@optonline.net>
   Cc: 433117@bugs.debian.org

   There have been several xserver-xorg-core updates, including one in
   the last 4 days.

   When I had to rebuild the system (on a new disk) I recorded the
   packages after the rebuild.  I had 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-6 at that time, so
   clearly in the realm of the pre-dash-7 release.

      korz@korz2b:~$ ls -l dpkg-list-rebuilt 
      -rw-r--r-- 1 korz korz 101325 2007-07-04 09:33 dpkg-list-rebuilt
      korz@korz2b:~$ grep xserver-xorg-core dpkg-list-rebuilt
      ii  xserver-xorg-core                 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-6 X.Org X server -- core server

   With daily updates of my system, it is up to -11 now.  That's life on
   "testing".

      root@korz2b:~# dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-core
      ii  xserver-xorg-core                 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-11 X.Org X server -- core server

   I'll try one of my test cases after I update and reboot.  Since
   yesterday morning there are another 20 updates for my system,
   including xserver-xorg-input-kdb, gdm and nfs-common.  Some of the
   libraries affect a significant number of services, so manually
   restarting each with be tedious at best.

   Fred