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Re: XServer Randomly restarting



On Saturday 18 June 2005 11:57 pm, Mr Mike wrote:
> A while back I was running a pure sarge system with several upgrades from
> the sid branch..  At some point my X Server began to 'restart' on it's own
> for no real apparent rhyme or reason.  ie, the action that triggered the
> restart one session could not always be duplicated in another one... 
> Simple things like clinking the 'x' to close the window or clicking the
> background to bring up a menu.  Like I said, really random and
> unpredictable.  I've looked in xsession error log, syslog, messages, etc..
> and NOT a damn thing...  it's as if some invisible soul is lurking over my
> shoulder and pressing ctl+alt+bkspace every now and then just to piss me
> off...  One good thing to come of this is I've learned to save my work much
> more frequently...
>
> Anyway...  I'm now running a mixed ubuntu/sarge (mostly sarge) box and the
> issue remains although not as bad as in the past.  Is there some way I can
> figure out what in the world is causing this so I can formulate a
> resolution?  Or, is there something else I should look at, like hardware
> problems?
>
> TIA..
> mike..
> houston, tx

Binary nVidia drivers with ' Option  "RenderAccel"   "true" ' 
in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, by any chance? I've seen it cause almost identical 
behavior in the past...

-- 
Ryan Schultz
-> floating point exception: divide by cucumber

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