On 03.04.12 09:23, gene heskett wrote:
> They run very well indeed, until you quit an app. At which point there
> seems to be a 5 to 10% possibility of the whole box going away about 1
> second after the apps screen goes away, leaving a black screen & frozen
> mouse cursor. Hit the reset or power buttons to recover. OTOH, if its X
> crashing, maybe I could try typing startx? I'll see if I can induce
> another such incident and try that just for S&G.
Is the host networked, Gene? Linux should not be seriously
inconvenienced by an app crashing, and I usually ssh in, then kill gdm
or similar. Then it's only necessary to restart X. Looking at an output
of ps on this box, I see:
root 745 1 0 15:03 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
root 841 745 0 15:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-simple-slave
--display-id /org/gnom e/DisplayManager/Display1
root 850 841 3 15:03 tty7 00:18:47 /usr/bin/X :0 -nr
-verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-f
or-gdm-FK2czT/database -nolisten tcp vt7
If it's late at night, I'm not always completely scientific, and just
whack these things till the jammed X goes away, then do a startx.
(But gdm-binary has init (PID == 1) as parent, and is momma to the
other guys, so that's the bullseye.)
As for the cause - there are a lot of us using ubuntu and a recent
edition of the X11 suite, with nary a problem, so a driver might be the
culprit - it may not be too happy with your hardware? Is this with
on-board graphics, and do you have another you could plug in?
I can understand that the 5-10% rate of falling over would get on your
wick!
Erik
P.S. I had mains power go once, in the middle of typing a post in vim
within mutt. So I lost that one because mutt's tmp file was in
/tmp, and was deleted on reboot. Changing the tmpdir fixed that.
I think you might have been better off with vim. ;-)
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