On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:59:00AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Goodness; what a horrible .signature. That would be a real incentive for > me to find a different employer. :) [Branden: it isn't Craig that you > need to worry about -- it is RMS! :] You appear to be blissfully ignorant of certain flamewars between Craig and myself in the past. All the better for you, probably. :) > In the meantime.... Otto, check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for a > fontpath element that is a unix-domain socket, possibly on port 6601 or > something similar. If you have one, try commenting it out. That has > caused problems for many people. This really shouldn't be a problem anymore. I've had a fix applied for a few versions and XFree86 included it in 4.0.1g, which will be out shortly in 4.0.1-9. > In order to get more information, try looking for /var/log/XFree86* > files. With luck, it managed to write out as much as possible before > dying. [Branden, do you know if our good friends at XFree86.org turn off > buffering for these files? :] No idea. > It is possible your USB mouse is giving trouble, but boy I hope that it > wouldn't cause crashes this severe. <shrug> The USB gizmos locked up my box hard using kernel 2.2.18pre23. So I turned USB off in the BIOS. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@debian.org | null word. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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