Re: Misterious X-server reboot

[Michel Dänzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Don, 2002-12-12 at 23:33, Alejandro Lorenzo Gallego wrote: 
> Hi, i'am using Xfree 4.2.1 (recentrly updated to see if the problem went away 
> with this) and mainly KDE 3.0.3
> 
> The thing is that; after a time o _perfect_ work of the X server; it, without 
> any kind of predictability reboots. Well, the true is that in many cases, the 
> reboot cames when you push a key, or click with the mous; but the misterious 
> is that it reboots randomly. And, besides, it leaves no log after; it simply 
> "choff" and the kdm interface came up inmediatly (just as i have just started 
> the box)

Sounds like the X server crashes, and kdm spawns another one. Using
startx or xinit instead might give a hint about the cause of the crash,
a common problem is the TrueType font renderer modules like freetype.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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