On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:18:45AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote:
> > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally,
> > and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it...
> >
> > I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX
> > 5200 using the nvidia binary driver. I've had this problem on both a
> > home-rolled 2.4.22 kernel and the Debian 2.6.7-SMP kernel-package.
>
> Do you get the same problem with the generic VESA drivers? (no modules
> in the kernel, just Driver "vesa" - works for my SiS 315 even though
> they say it's unsupported)
Hm, haven't tried that yet... Maybe I'll run it for a while with XFree's
"nv" driver instead, which IIRC supports the card but with no 3D
acceleration.
In light of Hendrick having what looks like the same problem on a
different brand of video card, however, this seems like a long shot.
> > Every couple of days or so X seems to die an abrupt death. The display
> > will freeze completely, keyboard input has no effect (including
> > CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE). The system is still running,
> > though: If XMMS is playing when the problem hits, the music keeps on
> > going; and I can ssh in to the box no problem. If I kill -9 the XDM and
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/X processes then the screen goes black... but then doing
> > /etc/init.d/xdm start just silently fails. So I've been ssh-ing in just
> > to reboot the box.
>
> Try deleting the pidfile before restarting xdm. (/var/run/xdm.pid)
> Or perhaps just do sudo startx?
Deleting that pidfile made no visible difference.
ssh-ing in as my regular user and running startx produced some output
that can be found at http://shorty.ca/logs/startx.Xcrash.txt
> > Now, I've had this happen while I was surfing the web, and while the
> > screensaver was running, and sometimes after the monitor has gone to
> > sleep (oh, and once in the middle of a game of armagetron).
> >
> > A "tail" of XFree86.0.log shows a bunch of GetModeLine entries, but
> > nothing that looks like error or panic or "ack! I'm dying!"...
> > I've done an 8-hr run of memtest86 with no complaints at all, the
> > temperature seems to be happy, and loading the crap out of the system
> > doesn't make it fail (I tried 5 hours of a kernel-compile loop, and 2
> > hours of cpuburn with no problems).
>
> When you ssh in, does "dmesg" show anything abnormal?
Looks normal enough to my rather untrained eye, but here it is:
http://shorty.ca/logs/dmesg.Xcrash.txt
And just for the sake of argument, here's my XFree86 log after the
latest crash:
http://shorty.ca/logs/XFree86.0.log.Xcrash.txt
Thanks!
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