Bug#304108: Moby Dick

["Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <change@nas.com>]

When my X applications started popping, one by
one, I knew it wouldn't be long before
xserver-xfree86-dbg would breach too.

And soon enough, it died, it died.

Here's the big but.

But, on the way back up, X hung at the checkered
gray-scale screen.

It hung harder than (U.S.) Vice President Dick
Cheney's clogged arteries.

I couldn't even switch virtual terminals by
pressing ctl-alt-f1.

So I had to harpoon it again with the reset
button, and when X finally came all the way back
up, there was no stack trace in either 

    /var/log/XFree86.0.log

or

    /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old

I suspect that restarting X a second time
overwrote the log file that held the stack trace,
but we still don't know where the blubbering beast
doth blow.

Can X be configured save older copies of
/var/log/XFree86.0.log?

Call me Ishmael,
Kingsley