Arthur A wrote:
Seemingly at random, and infrequently, X will crash and I will often
lose all open work. After a number of attempts to automatically restart
I will be given a message saying that X has crashed and cannot be
restarted. Switching to a different terminal killing all Xsessions and
GDM and attempting to restart them does not work. A reboot is seemingly
required.
I've had the exact same problem twice in the past week or two (as already
mentioned FYI in an unrelated BR). I'm using KDE/kdm, so it can't be the
desktop environment.
What I saw was lots of mode switching of the monitor and various
semi-random patterns displayed between (I assume) restart attempts.
Only option I've had is forcing a semi-clean reboot using the power button
of the system. I've not seen any messages that X crashed (except in the
logs after rebooting).
I'd been waiting for another repeat and more concrete info before filing a
report, but seeing this pass by I thought to at least let you know that
it's not a one-off problem.
I think it may be somehow related to console switching, but that's only a
vague feeling.
Attaching current config and current Xorg log (not from crash).
Cheers,
FJP