Re: X crashes when waking up from suspend to RAM, since move to 7.5: investigation methods?
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 07:04 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
>
> Since 7.5 X.org packages appeared in unstable, I experience great
> instability on my Dell Latitude E4200 (Intel GM45 chipset). Most
> problems happen when waking up from suspend to RAM: in short, from
> time to time, the X server crashes and I'm brought back to my window
> manager login screen.
>
> I haven't been able to isolate something specific (or a specific
> course of actions) that leads to these crashes: the server doesn't
> crash each time the machine wakes up from suspend, this is just
> apparently random.
>
> I have one specific thing running nearly always on this machine:
> Virtualbox-OSE (Debian packages). However, the crashes happen even
> when no virtual machine is running, so I don't think this could be
> related.
>
> What could I do to help investigating such crashes? The
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) doesn't seem to contain very
> detailed information about the crash but I may be missing something.
The gdm/kdm/... log file may contain more information about the crash.
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