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.
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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? Code:
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist. Code:
ould not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! |
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