Aergh. X dies on the hour, every hour
 

Aergh. THis is getting rather annoying. Just as the topic says, X dies every (clock) hour. This is somewhat odd because before it wouldn't do it often. I have checked the cron stuff, nothings in there. ps -A says cron isn't running. The logs in /var/log/ aren't very helpful all they say is "Caught signal 11"
Nothing is overheating, and its not like its been up for a long time either (2:51). I have already reinstalled XFree 86 4.3 and it doesn't change anything. Any ideas?

Maybe its just coded not to work the first x days of the month. :p
:newbie:

x server stays up because something is it's client
client dies/ server dies

so what is most likely going on is client is segfaulting "Caught signal 11"

now sometimes this can be in the link between the client and x libs and may depend on the way x was compiled but if that were the case it would be more random or have to do with a certain action
(certain ways of compiling x for instance cause kde to crash)

i guess the question is what's running when you startx ? window manager etc.. and is there a clock applet or something

I am using XFCE 4.2, and i start it by running the startup script. startxfce4. In the toolbar, there is a clock, but im not sure how that would tie in. But anyways, its been an hour and it has'nt crashed, so it seems to be a random bug. Actually, I was playing Starcraft (:p) for a while over the weekend and it didn't crash there. Come to think of it, it hasn't crashed while plying a game, only when i have papers open and haven't saved them. :rolleyes: I have had this problem off and on for a while now. In the past, i was using KDE and Blackbox and it would crash also.

this could be so many things -- all i can think of to do is check the x logs
or try building your own x server
it is possible to get it rock solid
for xfree 4.4.0 and gcc 3.4.1
i had to remove even the default gcc flags for it to be fully stable
of course for you it might be the video driver as well i guess
like i said it could be so many things besides (Novell shouldn't release unstable x builds)
which is what it really is
make a mental note if Qt/KDE applications are open when it crashes
Qt has some issues with openGL linking sometimes especially with Nvidia drivers
also the problem might be in font rendering ???
wish i could be more help
bottom line
Linux shouldn't crash on you but many distributions don't do enough testing because of competition to make the newest latest thing

well, its been up for 2 hours without crashing, so......
hmm...
Well you might have something with the font rendering?
When it starts up, there is a whole bunch of missing font directories.
like

Or is that something completely different?
and
f i remeber correctly, some of the time it crashed when xmms was switching to the next song.