Ben: yes, I tried it and got the same result.. the reason being that the X has crashed and gdb halts it. Here are better docs for getting a backtrace:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging to avoid the black screen you'd have to have logged in via ssh (apt-get install openssh-server), but it seems to be possible to do it with just one computer... -- [regression] 7.2 broke vesa: "No matching modes found" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs