Re: another X server restarts
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:29:40 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> my system also just restarts X every so often. Like this morning, my wife was
> logged into her account, and I do my usual CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to my
> account, and I am greeted with the login screen. Last night I had left
> klibido up and downloading files. This morning I am logged out.
>
> here are the last entries in Xorg.0.log:
> (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
> (II) APM registered successfully
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
> (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
> (==) RandR enabled
> (II) Initializing extension GLX
> (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
> (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
> (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
That looks like a normal sequence of startup messages to me. This would
mean that your Xorg crashed so hard that it could not even write
anything into the log anymore, which would indicate a serious issue with
the graphics driver or a hardware problem. Keep in mind, though, that
the previous log is normally overwritten when kdm restarts X. Check if
you have /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old and look for error messages in there.
> $ uname -a
> Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> $ ps -ef|grep kdm
> root 4698 1 0 Mar28 ?
> 00:00:00 /usr/bin/kdm -config /var/run/kdm/kdmrc
I guess the first thing to do is to unload the nvidia module and to try
running X with the "nv" driver. If the problem persists with the open
source driver then you have at least a chance to debug it further. In
that case you should also have a look at the hardware more closely
(memtest, power supply voltages, etc.).
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