Hi, I just did a fresh re-install of LM7.2 on my laptop and chose X4.0.1 instead of 3.3.6 this time. Now, when I try to access a virtual console, X crashes and restarts into kdm. The actual sequence is: - press C+A+F1 or C+A+F[2-6] - if f[2-6]: vc[2-6] appears momentarily - switches to vc1 - X restarts to kdm, losing all applications Before figuring out that it was X itself that was crashing, I installed KDE2.1 which gives the same results. Anyone have a clue as to what may be the source of this crash on a freshly installed system...? Thanks, Pierre This is an strace of xinit and C+A+F1... ioctl(5, VT_ACTIVATE, 0x1) = 0 --- SIGUSR1 (User defined signal 1) --- rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, {0x80943f8, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {0x80943f8, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, 8) = 0 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) --- setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [USR1]) sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0 nanosleep({0, 20000000}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(5, KDSKBMODE, 0x1) = 0 ioctl(5, SNDCTL_TMR_START, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(5, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 fcntl(7, F_GETFL) = 0x2802 (flags O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_ASYNC) fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGIO, {SIG_DFL}, {0x80973f0, [IO], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 close(7) = 0 nanosleep({0, 300000000}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(5, VT_RELDISP, 0x1) = 0 close(6) = 0 iopl(0) = 0 ioperm(0, 0x400, 0) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 20000}, it_value={0, 20000}}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({978069665, 207525}, NULL) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_IGN}, {0x807feac, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, 8) = 0 write(2, "\nFatal server error:\n", 21) = 21 write(0, "\nFatal server error:\n", 21) = 21 write(2, "Caught signal 11. Server aborti"..., 35) = 35 write(0, "Caught signal 11. Server aborti"..., 35) = 35