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On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:54:39 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon schrieb: |
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> >> Sometimes my gnome-session (2.28) works for hours, sometimes for |
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> >> minutes. |
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> > What happens when X crashes? Does the X session go away? Is there an |
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> > error message? Or does it just hang? |
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> The whole X-session restarts, as if I do "xdm restart" or |
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> "ctrl-alt-backspace". I get back to the login-prompt of gdm. |
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> No error message, I also browsed the xorg-logs, dmesg, /var/log/messages |
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> ... nothing related as far as I understand. |
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> > Your symptoms as described are random, I find far more often than not |
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> > that is hardware, usually the power supply, ram and video card (in that |
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> > order) |
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> > Give your hardware a thorough stress test, then only start playing with |
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> > downgrades |
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> Hmm, I don't know ... why should a hardware-problem only shoot X11 ... ? |
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> It should crash then also when I dualboot windows xp for gaming (it does |
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> not crash there even under quite high gaming load). |
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> OK, RAM might do that, I had a customers pc which rebooted (! reboot, |
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> not only kicking off one app) here and then because of defective RAM. |
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> I start some memtest while having my coffee just to check that out for a |
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> start. |
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> But I really assume some other reason, as I only recently went up to |
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> ~amd64 ... for me it is much more likely that maybe the step up to |
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> xorg-server 1.7.x or something related might be the reason here. |
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> bugs.gentoo.org didn't really list such a bug, maybe I should file one. |
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> But to me it seems a bit early as I can't reproduce it or really show |
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> some error-messages so far. |
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I still think a hardware stress test will be useful. The least that will |
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happen is you will verify your hardware is probably OK. |
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If it is software, then you have a long road ahead of you debugging it. With |
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no error messages of any kind you will likely have to rebuild in debug mode |
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and provide the devs with a backtrace. In which case it's probably easier to |
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downgrade to versions you know work. |
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I can attest to xorg-server-1.7.1 working just fine here with latest nvidia- |
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drivers in the tree on amd64 |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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