Re: crashtastic x & this odd --MARK-- filler
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:15:42AM +0000, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> anyhow, x is oddly crashy & i do not know why. if i'm logged in &
> using x, it's fine. if i'm logged in & i switch ttys away from it for more
> than five or ten minutes, it gives my syslog:
> gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> input condition is: 0x10, exiting
> & restarts. if i'm logged in & i leave it idle for five or ten minutes, it
> restarts. if i do not log in, but come back to it five or ten minutes after
> it's been sitting there, it restarts before letting me log in.
I'll have to mostly pass on this one. I might be inclined to file a bug
(probably against xserver-xfree86) if there isn't one already mentioning
crashiness with your video card ...
You could try 'xset s activate' as a test of whether it's X's default
screensaver stuff kicking in. If so, 'xset s off' disables that. I'm not
sure whether this affects GNOME's screensaver, though.
> second issue: i have NO idea if this is related, but it'd be swell
> if someone could tell me what this "-- MARK --" crap in my messages log
> is, & how i can make my new box stop doing it at :10, :30 & :50 on the
> hour. there's nothing in crontab.
syslogd does this; it's occasionally useful if a machine crashes and you
want some idea of when it happened. You can turn it off using the '-m 0'
option to syslogd, which you can put in the SYSLOGD="" line in
/etc/init.d/sysklogd.
It's not related to your first problem.
> thanks, cats. you each deserve oral sex.
Er, gosh. That's an unusual offer around here. :)
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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