Mysterious hangs/reboots can sometimes be attributed to bad memory.

Check the memory on the PC (using memtest, for example).

-Naren

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, USM Bish wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:33:08PM +0530, Puja Puri wrote:
> > 
> > I also have the similar problem, my X hangs very frequently.
> > My display card is VGA  i810 driver.
> > I am not using any GTK application.
> > What can be the problem and how it can be removed ?
> > Please help.
> > 
> > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > 
> > > > once in a every 5 or 7 times, the X hangs and I am even un-
> > > > able to terminate X.
> > > 
> > > What chipset/display card you have ?  Are you running any GTK 
> > > application  when it hangs ? ( Hint. It's easy to hang X with 
> > > GTK. Give it heavy keyboard/ mouse input when it's displaying 
> > > the initial gray window i.e when it's not fully started. It 
> > > mangs most of the times...)
> > > 
> ---end quoted text---
> 
> This seems a difficult one to tackle.  There  may  be problems
> with the X server itself. Should not happen with Xserver 3.3.x
> which has been very stable for long. There  used  to  be posts 
> like this on debian-user when ver 4 of X was first released. 
> 
> The problems may have been ironed out,  but there  are chances
> that your distro (if dishing out Ver 4) may bundle an old copy
> (I am still on 3.3.x and cannot confirm).
> 
> A starting point would be to check startx output .. to see for
> any errors. 
> 
> Bish.
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