Bug#496889: gnome-games: sol causes(?) X-server crash and lockup

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Julian Gilbey wrote:
> The problem is that gdm tries restarting X at least twice after the
> crash, after both of which X failed to start because it was locked
> up.  So the original crash info and core file have been overwritten.
> Oops.  I've just written a wrapper round X to rotate the core files
> before running X, so hopefully the next time there is a crash, I'll be
> able to pass on this information.
>   

Or just start X with 'startx' from a VT console after disabling gdm.

Brice