I've saw that several people were reporting a similar issue on various forums while I hunted for a solution to this, so I thought I would pass on what info I have in hopes that it helps. Probably related to Bug#443794. This afternoon when I performed this upgrade on my Debian Lenny system: xserver-xorg-core (2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12) to 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12lenny1 All OpenGL/GLX programs immediately stopped working. I first noticed this when my screensaver caused X to crash back to gdm and experimented with a number of other programs including Wine. All with the same result. The most interesting one was the NVIDIA X Server Settings GUI program which worked fine until I clicked on the OpenGL/GLX tab, at which point it also crashed X. I upgraded to the newer version of xserver-xorg-core in the sid repository to see if it resolved the problem, but no luck. Reinstalling the NVIDIA drivers (same version: 100.14.19) did fix it. While the install was running it reported that some other program had modified some of its files, for example installing a driver from the package manager. I haven't done that. A search in synaptic doesn't even show the proprietary nvidia driver in the repositories that I have enabled. The relevant part of the Xorg.0.log file is here: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x6d) [0x48588d] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2b039021a6a0] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting I attached the log in case any more useful data can be extracted. I have a Geforce 7900 GT 256 MB running Twin View. No problems before downloading the updates. No problems (knock on wood) since reinstalling the drivers.
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