On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:46:31PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > I would be nice to know if other people *aren't* getting this as it would > then mean the problem must be on my system. That would at least be a clue > although I cannot imagine why it started suddenly. Well, I'm not getting such messages. Is it possible that have run out of memory? In that case, the X server can get killed.