Re: Spontaneous Rebooting while in X
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:36:17 -0700
Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This has happened to me a few times before, in 2.2 kernels and 2.4
> kernels. I'm not sure where I should start looking first, but I have a
> feeling that the X server could be a factor.
>
> The last few times it has happened it was while I was in Mozilla and
> clicking quickly on the horozontal scroll bar to move to the right a
> screen at at time, and then poof, reboot.
>
> I doubt it is mozilla itself, since unprivleged userspace shouldn't be
> able to reboot the system, though X does have access to the
> hardware...
>
> This has happened less than 10 times in the past year with different
> kernels, and even different X server versions (I'm running
> debian-testing). What can I do that might be able to help me narrow
> this down a little?
X is hardware intensive. I would start by setting up memtest86 and
running that for a day or so (at least one full cycle). It may just be
that there are processes in X that aren't dying properly so that you
start getting farther into your physical memory and you reach a specific
"bad" spot. If you have the java plugin running in mozilla I've seen it
open a *LOT* of instances of java_vm -- if they don't die properly as
you move from page to page...well...
G
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