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nvidia-settings package

  1. Bug #286424
  2. Comment #113

Comment 113 for bug 286424

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Johnathon (kirrus) wrote : Re: [Bug 286424] Re: nvidia-settings crashes when user clicks Save To X Configuration File

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It would be possible to apply the workaround in the package's postinst
script.. would that be accepted if I created a patch to do just that?

Cris wrote:
> I've freshly installed Karmic from scratch and this bug is still
> present:
>
>> $ sudo nvidia-settings
>>
>> VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>> Undefined Device "(null)" referenced by Screen "Default Screen".
>>
>> Segmentation fault
>
>> [ 194.169860] nvidia-settings[2130]: segfault at 1c ip 080b68dd sp bf875fa0 error 4 in nvidia-settings[8048000+9b000]
>> [ 210.593909] nvidia-settings[2144]: segfault at 1c ip 080b68dd sp bfef6d80 error 4 in nvidia-settings[8048000+9b000]
>

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