Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/08/10 13:05, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/08/2010 03:56 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >> gripes!! valgrind breaks with >> libc 2.11.90(I'll see later on this), >> >> In your case what does valgrind >> output's say when the crash occurs? > > Did you use any options with valgrind or just 'valgrind s

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/08/2010 03:56 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > gripes!! valgrind breaks with > libc 2.11.90(I'll see later on this), > > In your case what does valgrind > output's say when the crash occurs? Did you use any options with valgrind or just 'valgrind startx'?

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/08/10 09:37, Tom Cowell wrote: >> >> FYI, the error in the log on launchpad was a segfault (SIGSEGV), so >> you appear to have two different errors. The segfault (signal 11) >> should be fixable. The mysterious SIGTERM might be tough to handle >> since it could come from anywhere. >> > > Inde

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Re: some help please X freeze laptop

2010-01-08 Thread Morgan M.C.M-L
Hello tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log -> attached tail.log0 tail -f /var/log/Xorg.1.log -> file dos not exist (probably because I've erased 2 times some log) tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old -> attached tail.log0.old But taking a look at 'dbus' and 'hal', (I began to anderstand : HAL Hardware Abstr

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Tom Cowell
> > FYI, the error in the log on launchpad was a segfault (SIGSEGV), so > you appear to have two different errors. The segfault (signal 11) > should be fixable. The mysterious SIGTERM might be tough to handle > since it could come from anywhere. > Indeed. Some of the debugger traces (the earlier o

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/08/2010 10:11 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: >> I was responding to this remark from Peter Hutterer: >> uhm. SIGTERM is the termination signal. Something's shutting down your server. >> >> If SIGTERM is coming from another process, then the

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/08/10 08:18, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/08/2010 10:30 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >> >> well looking at your debug log you provided >> on launchpad It seems >> to be doing something with nss >> before crapping out as well as something with >> libc and tls. > > The screen left some output that

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Ryan Daly wrote: >> On 01/08/2010 10:11 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: >>> I was responding to this remark from Peter Hutterer: >>> > uhm. SIGTERM is the termination signal. Something's shutting down your > serv

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/08/2010 10:30 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > > well looking at your debug log you provided > on launchpad It seems > to be doing something with nss > before crapping out as well as something with > libc and tls. The screen left some output that may be of interest, too. (I transposed this

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/08/10 07:03, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/08/2010 08:59 AM, Pat Kane wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Ryan Daly wrote: >>> Could hardware problems trigger this? >> >> Yes, have you run memcheck on the flakey system? If the first >> pass is okay, let it run all night. > > No, I have not

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/08/2010 10:19 AM, Pat Kane wrote: > See: http://www.memtest.org/ > > Many boot/live CDs have memtest as an option when booting from them. > I know that my Fedora and Ubuntu install CDs let me boot into memtest. Ahh, OK. I have used that tool before. I'll run the 'strace' as suggested ea

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/08/2010 10:11 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: > I was responding to this remark from Peter Hutterer: > >>> uhm. SIGTERM is the termination signal. Something's shutting down your >>> server. > > If SIGTERM is coming from another process, then the debugger won't > provide any information about _which_

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Tom Cowell
I was responding to this remark from Peter Hutterer: >> uhm. SIGTERM is the termination signal. Something's shutting down your >> server. If SIGTERM is coming from another process, then the debugger won't provide any information about _which_ process. However, a recursive strace of startx (and al

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/08/2010 08:59 AM, Pat Kane wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Ryan Daly wrote: >> Could hardware problems trigger this? > > Yes, have you run memcheck on the flakey system? If the first > pass is okay, let it run all night. No, I have not. I'm not familiar with that tool. I'll loo

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/08/2010 03:50 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: > I'm a novice here - excuse me butting int, and ignore me if this isn't useful. > > If I understand correctly, you have: > > a) The X Server receives SIGTERM and exits. > b) The source of the SIGTERM is unknown (but perhaps one of the > clients of the X

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/07/2010 06:11 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> Not sure this will work, but if it's a symbol resolving problem, you >> can try to get it to crash faster by using LD_BIND_NOW. >> >> LD_BIND_NOW=1 startx `which xterm` > > X will not start with L

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/07/2010 06:11 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Not sure this will work, but if it's a symbol resolving problem, you > can try to get it to crash faster by using LD_BIND_NOW. > > LD_BIND_NOW=1 startx `which xterm` X will not start with LD_BIND_NOW set to 1. It's unable to load /usr/lib/xorg/m

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/08/2010 08:38 AM, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/07/2010 06:07 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > Yes, typing seems to be the trigger...but there are times when it stays > up for hours, if not a day or two before exiting on me. Then, once it > does it seems to do it frequently if I log in again. >

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/07/2010 06:07 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > not sure what might be the next step for you at this point. > I've an old machine over here, I can throw in ubuntu > to see if I hit this as well(you said typing triggers this). > > with that, you are using gdb to > debug, out of curiosity maybe

Re: some help please X freeze laptop

2010-01-08 Thread courten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: "Morgan M.C.M-L" Gesendet: 08.01.10 02:02:01 An: cour...@web.de CC: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Betreff: Re: some help please X freeze laptop Thank you Felix for helping me. I'm a newbee on NetBSD, so : 1- uname -a -> 5.0.1-Release, and I've made a netinsta

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-08 Thread Tom Cowell
I'm a novice here - excuse me butting int, and ignore me if this isn't useful. If I understand correctly, you have: a) The X Server receives SIGTERM and exits. b) The source of the SIGTERM is unknown (but perhaps one of the clients of the X Server). c) You can reproduce this by starting X and the