Re: Xserver mysteriously dieing

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Scott Henson <shenson2@silvercoin.dyndns.org> writes:

> Recently my X server has been dying unexpectedly and unpredictably.  I
> was wondering if anyone could help me diagnose this problem.  I am
> running Unstable with Xfree86 4.2.1 and Gnome2 packages from
> experimental.  This seems to occur when my computer is idle or possibly
> when I lock the screen(using xscreen-saver).  I am totally stumped on
> this one.  In my logs I see almost nothing.

Hm, you could try attaching gdb to your running X process.  Or you could
enable core dumps and see if gdb gets anything useful out of those.

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