Random X Crashes

punchthemonkey94 · 04-15-2007, 03:59 PM

Over the last few days, my X server has been randomly crashing (meaning I don't recall doing anything that would trigger it). These occurrances are spread over several hours, so its only happened 5 or 6 times. After it crashes, it blanks out for ~3 seconds and goes to the login screen. Once I log back in, every thing seems fine (except anything not saved was lost).

I'm thinking its got something to do with gconf, since the majority of messages have something to do with it.

This is my /var/messages log from ~ 3.5 hours before the last crash. I bolded the most likely culprits at the bottom, those messages were written within seconds of each other and thats when my X server last crashed.

Quote:

Apr 15 13:10:47 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-975): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Apr 15 13:10:47 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-975): Exiting
Apr 15 13:25:01 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 13:45:01 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 14:05:01 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 14:25:01 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 14:45:03 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 14:48:42 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-4528): starting (version 2.16.0), pid 4528 user 'luke'
Apr 15 14:48:42 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-4528): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Apr 15 14:48:42 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-4528): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/luke/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Apr 15 14:48:42 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-4528): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Apr 15 14:48:42 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-4528): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Apr 15 14:48:42 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-4528): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4
Apr 15 15:05:05 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 15:25:06 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 15:45:07 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 16:05:07 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 16:25:07 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 16:43:21 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-4528): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Apr 15 16:43:21 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-4528): Exiting
Apr 15 16:43:27 luke-desktop kernel: [17795475.472000] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

EDIT: I just wanted to add that I think the only significant change I made to my system before this started happening was I installed a couple thousand fonts.

punchthemonkey94 · 04-15-2007, 04:39 PM

It just happened again, within an hour of the last one, but atlease I know whats definatly causing it.

Heres /var/log/messages, everything after the last one.

Quote:

Apr 15 16:49:17 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-5804): starting (version 2.16.0), pid 5804 user 'luke'
Apr 15 16:49:17 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-5804): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Apr 15 16:49:17 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-5804): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/luke/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Apr 15 16:49:17 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-5804): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Apr 15 16:49:17 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-5804): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Apr 15 16:49:17 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-5804): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4
Apr 15 17:05:10 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 17:25:13 luke-desktop -- MARK --
Apr 15 17:33:52 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-5804): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Apr 15 17:33:52 luke-desktop gconfd (luke-5804): Exiting

Now I definatly know that its gconfd recieving SIGTERM. Now how would I fix that?

Matz · 05-21-2007, 08:06 AM

Hi. I'm experiencing exactly the same problem with exactly the same distro and exactly the same "Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly" message. This happens randomly.

It's like a cpu temperature issue, but I'm sure the last time it happened the temperature was low (the laptop was turned on just few minutes before).

In addition I don't understand what is gconf doing here, given we are using kde

rustycann2000 · 05-30-2007, 06:37 PM

As with the others my system PCLinuxOS crashes too, but I can run every app on the system except Open Office. As soon as I try to open any of the apps the system crashes and boots me back to the logon screen. I am a newbbie to this system. I will have to go back to Ubuntu 7 very shortly. I like the look and feel of the PCLOS but this is very annoying.