Bug#430539: xserver-xorg-core: xserver dies when TAB is pressed
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 14:10 +0200, jorgen.hagg@axis.com wrote:
>
> The screen becomes black, so it does some sort of shutdown, altough
> not complete, keyboard is dead and I have to either log in thru the net
> or do a shutdown using the power switch.
>
> When I examine the processes (logging in thru the net) I can't find
> the X server or any other X program running.
>
> This happens with both the nv and nvidia driver, seems to be
> server-related.
>
> My workaround was to downgrade xserver-xorg and it's modules to
> the etch versions, it seems to work fine.
>
> I could not see anything logged either to Xorg.log or what startx
> produced.
Not even on stderr of startx or the X server itself? If the X server
ends up attempting to call an unresolved function, it gets killed
immediately with no chance for any cleanup or logging, and the only way
to detect this is in its stderr output.
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