Re: [otto.wyss@csam.com: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report]
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:59:00AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: Goodness; what a horrible .signature. That would be a real incentive for me to find a different employer. :) [Branden: it isn't Craig that you need to worry about -- it is RMS! :] You appear to be blissfully ignorant of certain flamewars between Craig and myself in the past. All the better for you, probably. :) In the meantime Otto, check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for a fontpath element that is a unix-domain socket, possibly on port 6601 or something similar. If you have one, try commenting it out. That has caused problems for many people. This really shouldn't be a problem anymore. I've had a fix applied for a few versions and XFree86 included it in 4.0.1g, which will be out shortly in 4.0.1-9. In order to get more information, try looking for /var/log/XFree86* files. With luck, it managed to write out as much as possible before dying. [Branden, do you know if our good friends at XFree86.org turn off buffering for these files? :] No idea. It is possible your USB mouse is giving trouble, but boy I hope that it wouldn't cause crashes this severe. shrug The USB gizmos locked up my box hard using kernel 2.2.18pre23. So I turned USB off in the BIOS. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux| engineering. "Supernatural" is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein PGP signature
Re: [otto.wyss@csam.com: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report]
I happen to work at Credit Suisse. If you'd like, I'll talk to him. - Original Message - From: "Branden Robinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:47 AM Subject: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[otto.wyss@csam.com: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report]
Guess I'm violating the license on this mail by forwarding it. Maybe Craig Sanders and this guy would like to file a class-action copyright infringment suit against me... - Forwarded message from Wyss, Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Wyss, Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:43:25 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Server-Uuid: a46faee8-2a4f-11d3-9c63-00508b4fa69c Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58) X-WSS-ID: 1638DAFD80403-01-01 I have an uptodate woody (11/27/2000) with kernel 2.4.0-test11 (i386) using framebuffer support on an ATI Mach64. Now XFree 4.0.1-8 using fbdev (started with startx) crashes my system so worse, that I neither can't switch to any console nor get a connection across the network (telnet, ping). All I can do to get out of a completly blank screen is pressing the hard reset button. My setup used to work with XFree 3.3.6 and kernel 2.4.0-test5. Now how do I retrieve any useful information after the restart of my system, so I can make a useful bug report? What else can I do to help resolve this crash, i.e. kernel with debug support? Does my USB-keyboard/-mouse have an influence in this crash? Or is there any other package I might have to look at? Could you provide my a bash script with all the necessary commands, since I'm not very used to X? How do I install X so I could use/test version 3 and 4 through different startups (startx3/starx4)? O. Wyss PS. If you aren't the right person, could you please forward this message? --- PPS. Sorry for the following text, I can't stop it :-( - NOTICE - This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not use, disseminate, copy it in any form or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please delete it and any copies of it and notify CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message specifically states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP, CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON, and each legal entity in the CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON or CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT business units of CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. - End forwarded message - -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux |It tastes good. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Bill Clinton http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | pgp7SvWxLkgz6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [otto.wyss@csam.com: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report]
Goodness; what a horrible .signature. That would be a real incentive for me to find a different employer. :) [Branden: it isn't Craig that you need to worry about -- it is RMS! :] In the meantime Otto, check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for a fontpath element that is a unix-domain socket, possibly on port 6601 or something similar. If you have one, try commenting it out. That has caused problems for many people. In order to get more information, try looking for /var/log/XFree86* files. With luck, it managed to write out as much as possible before dying. [Branden, do you know if our good friends at XFree86.org turn off buffering for these files? :] It is possible your USB mouse is giving trouble, but boy I hope that it wouldn't cause crashes this severe. shrug Cheers :) * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001130 01:50]: Guess I'm violating the license on this mail by forwarding it. Maybe Craig Sanders and this guy would like to file a class-action copyright infringment suit against me... - Forwarded message from Wyss, Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Wyss, Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:43:25 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Server-Uuid: a46faee8-2a4f-11d3-9c63-00508b4fa69c Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58) X-WSS-ID: 1638DAFD80403-01-01 I have an uptodate woody (11/27/2000) with kernel 2.4.0-test11 (i386) using framebuffer support on an ATI Mach64. Now XFree 4.0.1-8 using fbdev (started with startx) crashes my system so worse, that I neither can't switch to any console nor get a connection across the network (telnet, ping). All I can do to get out of a completly blank screen is pressing the hard reset button. My setup used to work with XFree 3.3.6 and kernel 2.4.0-test5. Now how do I retrieve any useful information after the restart of my system, so I can make a useful bug report? What else can I do to help resolve this crash, i.e. kernel with debug support? Does my USB-keyboard/-mouse have an influence in this crash? Or is there any other package I might have to look at? Could you provide my a bash script with all the necessary commands, since I'm not very used to X? How do I install X so I could use/test version 3 and 4 through different startups (startx3/starx4)? O. Wyss PS. If you aren't the right person, could you please forward this message? --- PPS. Sorry for the following text, I can't stop it :-( - NOTICE - This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not use, disseminate, copy it in any form or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please delete it and any copies of it and notify CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message specifically states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP, CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON, and each legal entity in the CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON or CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT business units of CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. - End forwarded message - -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux |It tastes good. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Bill Clinton http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.''
Re: [otto.wyss@csam.com: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report]
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:59:00AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: Goodness; what a horrible .signature. That would be a real incentive for me to find a different employer. :) [Branden: it isn't Craig that you need to worry about -- it is RMS! :] You appear to be blissfully ignorant of certain flamewars between Craig and myself in the past. All the better for you, probably. :) In the meantime Otto, check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for a fontpath element that is a unix-domain socket, possibly on port 6601 or something similar. If you have one, try commenting it out. That has caused problems for many people. This really shouldn't be a problem anymore. I've had a fix applied for a few versions and XFree86 included it in 4.0.1g, which will be out shortly in 4.0.1-9. In order to get more information, try looking for /var/log/XFree86* files. With luck, it managed to write out as much as possible before dying. [Branden, do you know if our good friends at XFree86.org turn off buffering for these files? :] No idea. It is possible your USB mouse is giving trouble, but boy I hope that it wouldn't cause crashes this severe. shrug The USB gizmos locked up my box hard using kernel 2.2.18pre23. So I turned USB off in the BIOS. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's magic is another man's Debian GNU/Linux| engineering. Supernatural is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein pgpyFSqgDzvrm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [otto.wyss@csam.com: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report]
I happen to work at Credit Suisse. If you'd like, I'll talk to him. - Original Message - From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-x@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:47 AM Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: XFree 4.0.1-8 crashes my system completly, how can I retrieve inf ormation fora bug report]
