Tuesday 4 March 2014

Trusty X crashiness in a VMware Fusion VM

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X seems to be highly unstable when running Trusty inside a VMware Fusion 6.0.2
VM on OS X 10.9.2, as of at least 2014-02-24. LP: #1284134 is where I
reported the bug. It's highly disruptive.

Has anybody else noticed this? Does anybody have any thoughts or workarounds?
I have a snapshot dated 23-Feb which I may have to fall back to and then pin
various packages in the X stack until I regain a stable desktop. I haven't
completely ruled out the OS X 10.9.2 update, which I installed on 25-Feb.

I'm fairly certain it's related to xserver-xorg-video-vmware; running Trusty
on native hardware, X seems as solid as ever.

Cheers,
-Barry