X crashes while using Iceweasel
Hello everyone, I'm running the DebianEEEPC (Lenny) variant on my Asus EEEE 904HA netbook. It has been working quite well except for one recurrent and unfortunate problem: Occasionally X fails unexpectedly and won't restart until I reboot. The screen suddenly goes black and turns on and off a few times before displaying a blue screen with a gray box informing me that X has failed to initiate. Entering "startx" into a terminal does not work, but after rebooting X starts just fine as it always does.
So far I have not been able to reproduce this problem intentionally, but I have noticed that it only seems to occur while I am using Iceweasel. The last time it happened, I chose the "Restore previous session" option when I started Iceweasel again, and X crashed again a few seconds later, which reinforces my suspicion that it is somehow causing this to happen. This has never happened when I am not using Iceweasel. The X error screen which appears after these crashes has an option to view some sort of logs, but does not offer an option to save a copy. Is there somewhere on the disk where these logs are stored, so that I might be able to post them here? |
Logs related with the X server should be stored in /var/log/ within the text file Xorg.0.log
Try searching for clues there. =) |
Well, I just experienced another crash, but unfortunately logs related to that crash appear to have been overwritten when I attempted startx. Next time I'll make copies of them first. I do have a little bit more information, though.
When I ran startx (after the crash), I got these error messages after failure: Code:
xinit: Connection reset by peer (errno 104): unable to connect to X server Code:
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It just happened again. I made copies of the logs before I restarted, but unfortunately the logs seem to reflect only the couple times that X automatically attempted to restart following the crash. I can post them if anyone thinks they might be helpful. I don't really know how to read them and thus I don't know what section to post.
I have, however, noticed an interesting correlation. I don't remember the circumstances of the first couple crashes, but recently every time it's crashed, it has been when I attempted to access this webcomic: http://chronillogical.com/ . Now it doesn't crash every time I go there, but I'm not sure it has ever crashed under different circumstances. What this means I have no idea. |
I am not sure, but maybe is the flash support what is failing. A while ago, my Iceweasel crashed, but without crashing the whole X server, but it was due to some files missing for the flash plug-in to work correctly, maybe this could be related to something like that, but is only an assumption.
By the way, did you try running iceweasel from the console, maybe when it crashes it throws important messages. |
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