Radeon 9200 Attempt to free NULL pointer

[Jim Cornette]

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:33:27 -0400
>>From: Jim Cornette <redhat-jc at insight.rr.com>
>>To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
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>>Subject: Re: Radeon 9200 Attempt to free NULL pointer
>>
>> I noticed that you mentioned ctl-alt-backspace as a means of exiting 
>>the X server.
>>
>>I thought that this was suposed to be used only when  X was misbehaving 
>>and could not be closed down any other way.
>>
>>Have there been graceful items added to exiting via ctl-alt-backspace or 
>>is it still a bad way to exit X?
> 
> 
> You essentially kill all running apps.  You may lose unsaved 
> work, config files, data files of various applications if they 
> don't shut down cleanly.  It's rare that problems arise mind you, 
> but not worth risking it if you can shut down cleanly.
> 
> 


Thanks!

I'll keep logging out with the logout button then. The bug report 
mentioned logging out with ctl-alt-backspace and I thought that it 
immediately killed X. No grace on exit.

Jim