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The X Windows System is a critical component in the Ubuntu operating
system. X is not without its bugs, but fortunately debugging X issues
is not rocket science.		 The X Windows System is a critical component in the Ubuntu operating system. X is not without its bugs, but fortunately debugging X issues is not rocket science.
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The vast majority of Ubuntu X issues fall into one of several distinct
categories, and based on the way they manifest, there are several
different tactics that can be employed in a nearly paint-by-numbers
fashion to isolate them.

Even non-developers can help! The goal of this handbook is to give
folks a toolset for rendering these bugs easily solvable.		 The vast majority of Ubuntu X issues fall into one of several distinct categories, and based on the way they manifest, there are several different tactics that can be employed in a nearly paint-by-numbers fashion to isolate them.
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The X Windows System is a critical component in the Ubuntu operating system. X is not without its bugs, but fortunately debugging X issues is not rocket science.

The vast majority of Ubuntu X issues fall into one of several distinct categories, and based on the way they manifest, there are several different tactics that can be employed in a nearly paint-by-numbers fashion to isolate them.

Contents:

Debugging Central

This page is part of the debugging series — pages with debugging details for a variety of Ubuntu packages.

  • I. X/Reporting - How to create good X bug reports

  • II. X/CommonErrors - Explanations for commonly seen error messages

  • III. X/Backtracing - How to collect a backtrace for an X crash

  • IV. X/Triaging - How to ensure new X bug reports have enough info to troubleshoot

  • V. X/Troubleshooting - How to analyze X bugs to make them solvable

  • VI. X/Quirks - Fixes for some common hardware-specific issues

  • VII. X/Upstreaming - Forwarding X bugs upstream

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