Re: Debian crash randomly
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:30:42PM -0700, mond wrote:
> On Apr 27, 10:50 pm, Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 07:31:04PM -0700, mond <mond...@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> >
> > > 1. I think it is all about X( form the log you can tell). The system
> > > is not down. I don,t have another computer home. So I can not ssh when
> > > it crashes. But I will test it in office if it crashes.
> > > 2. The is no keyboard light flashing, so basically it is not a kernel
> > > problem. I actually tried to use other kernels, but it does not help.
> > > 3. gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 is the
> > > reason why it crashes. I googled for a while. A lot of debian and
> > > ubuntu users suffer the same problem and jet there is no solution,at
> > > least i have not found any.
> >
> > I think the gdm error is probably a symptom, not a cause. gdm is the
> > program that starts the X server, and that line probably just means
> > "the X server blew up, I'll try restarting it and see if that works".
> > The real problem is whatever is causing the X server to blow up; the X
> > server's logs might be helpful in tracking that down. This also means
> > that you probably won't find much by Googling for the gdm error message,
> > since if I'm right, it comes up whenever something goes wrong with X
> > (meaning that those pages you found on Google could each be someone with
> > a completely different problem that happens to have the same symptom).
>
> I got you. Next time it froze. I will keep an eye on the Xorg log.
> thank you very much. Sorry for post the same thing twice.
>
> Huifeng
Judging from your name, I suspect you may be using SCIM as input method.
If so, are you using XIM or IMMODULE. If IMMODULE is used while library
transition happens, it may bite you. That is why we recommend use of XIM.
Remove all SCIM packages and see what happens.
Osamu
PS: Maybe, SCIM needs to be rebuild for sability.
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