X crashes when viewing changes for ssh

Binary package hint: update-manager

X.org crashes consistently each time I try to view the description of changes in ssh 1:4.2p1-7ubuntu3.1. I have an nVidia graphics card.

(**) | |-->Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 13:09:21 PDT 2006
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs

The end of the x.org log file follows:

   *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
   *** be the reason for the server aborting.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x86) [0x80b4ab6]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/bin/X(Xfree+0x21) [0x81969fa]
3: [0xb743ec1a]
4: /usr/bin/X [0x814718d]
5: /usr/bin/X(CompositeGlyphs+0x94) [0x813abdf]
6: /usr/bin/X [0x813d479]
7: /usr/bin/X [0x813e9de]
8: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x19e) [0x8085d56]
9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x47c) [0x806e0d8]
10: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd2) [0xb7deaea2]
11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x85) [0x806d641]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting