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Re: X11 just froze, and /var/log/syslog (dmesg)'s output seems to mean something



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Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 18 May 2010 18:08:24 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>> I realized that my computer (this one, Debian Lenny, w. k.
>> 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem) was frozen. I tried escaping from the screensaver,
>> but nothing worked, except launching another tty, and restarting gdm.
>> Here is the interesting output I obtained by looking at /var/log/syslog
>> and dmesg:
>> 
>> ==
>> [24892.623421] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xbb
>> on isa0060/serio0).
>
> (...)
>
> That seems to be unrelated with a X freeze. Looks like a keyboard key 
> mapping error but nothing serious.
>
> Just review your "/var/log/Xorg.0.log". If X crashed there must something 
> there :-?
Nothing really interesting there. Just:

==
AUDIT: Tue May 18 18:01:04 2010: 3716 X: client 33 rejected from local host (uid 0)
  Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
==
but 18:01:24 seems to be when I asked to restart gdm.

Note that I do not think that X crashed entirely. I just mean that the
screen was looking like frozen, but screensaver was still
moving... slowly, or sometimes really slowly.
- -- 
Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
- -- 

All flowers are not in one garden.
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