X dies randomly, no obvious errors
 

Just as the title says, X dies randomly......Im using XFree 86 4.3

Ah, up higher in the log theres a lot of missing font directories. Would that cause the crash?

sounds like you just need to run xf86config from CLI (runlevel 3) and make sure the paths to your fonts are correct after you run xf86config...

I wouldn't expect missing fonts to crash X. The log you are showing is the startup log for X and isn't updated after X is running. What is in your /var/log/messages and /var/log/errors logs?

/var/log/errors does not exist. /var/log/messages gives nothing helpful other than
"Display :0 terminated unexpectedly" which I already know. Could another driver be causing the crash? Where else should I look? Last night, it was crashing every 7 minutes. You could set a watch by it. Now it doesn't seem so bad, its lasted 1hr without dying. Ah, just a side note, VNC server doesnt die at all, even when the X server displaying to my monitor goes out.

I always found 4.3 to be pretty stable.

Hmmm...

Every 7 minutes, like clockwork? Prolly is clockwork. What do you have running that runs every 7 minutes? Beyond that, you might start disabling services to see if the trouble quits.

I would bet you have a library or driver conflict someplace, and some package installation has changed a symlink to the wrong lib. You could fix this be reinstalling X.

Ah, thanks. If I shut down kdm, and just run xinit it works fine.I guess Ill reinstall X and see what happens. BTW, how do I check whats running? Is that the cron thing that sends messages?

You can view active threads by typing ps -A in you shell.

what video card? I seen a thread around here somewhere that had an nvidia card that the fan went out on and the card was overheating causing x to crash. Ill look for the link. Open your case and check your fan on the card. Just a shot in the dark. also check dmesg.