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. > > -- > : > ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### > > Sub : Capturing startx output LOST #008 > > To capture startx output : '$startx 1>startx.log 2>&1' > ... This will dump a bunch of text to the file "startx.log" > $less startx.log ... to view the results in an xterm. > > ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### > : > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
