Re: X11 just froze, and /var/log/syslog (dmesg)'s output seems to mean something
On Tue, 18 May 2010 20:08:02 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>> 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.
Nothing more in the rest of the "/var/log/Xorg.x.log" files?
> 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.
Next time it happens, go to a tty and type "top" to list the processes in
use. Sort the table by CPU cycles and/or memory use. The slowness could
be caused by a "rampant" program consuming a lot of resources.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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