On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:52:37PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:18:45AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > > > > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, > > > and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... > > > > > > I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX > > > 5200 using the nvidia binary driver. I've had this problem on both a > > > home-rolled 2.4.22 kernel and the Debian 2.6.7-SMP kernel-package. > > > > Do you get the same problem with the generic VESA drivers? (no modules > > in the kernel, just Driver "vesa" - works for my SiS 315 even though > > they say it's unsupported) > > Hm, haven't tried that yet... Maybe I'll run it for a while with XFree's > "nv" driver instead, which IIRC supports the card but with no 3D > acceleration. > In light of Hendrick having what looks like the same problem on a > different brand of video card, however, this seems like a long shot. > > > > Every couple of days or so X seems to die an abrupt death. The display > > > will freeze completely, keyboard input has no effect (including > > > CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE). The system is still running, > > > though: If XMMS is playing when the problem hits, the music keeps on > > > going; and I can ssh in to the box no problem. If I kill -9 the XDM and > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/X processes then the screen goes black... but then doing > > > /etc/init.d/xdm start just silently fails. So I've been ssh-ing in just > > > to reboot the box. > > > > Try deleting the pidfile before restarting xdm. (/var/run/xdm.pid) > > Or perhaps just do sudo startx? > > Deleting that pidfile made no visible difference. > ssh-ing in as my regular user and running startx produced some output > that can be found at http://shorty.ca/logs/startx.Xcrash.txt By default startx (technically, the Debian suid root xserver-wrapper) checks that in was run on a virtual console.
Try: sudo XFree86 :0 (/usr/bin/X is the Debian suidroot wrapped, /usr/bin/XFree86 is the server...) > > > snippage > > When you ssh in, does "dmesg" show anything abnormal? > > Looks normal enough to my rather untrained eye, but here it is: > http://shorty.ca/logs/dmesg.Xcrash.txt Looks normal to me too :) > And just for the sake of argument, here's my XFree86 log after the > latest crash: > http://shorty.ca/logs/XFree86.0.log.Xcrash.txt Looks normal too... -- The world's most effective spam filter: ln -sf /dev/full /var/mail/$USER -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]