l i n u x - u s e r s - g r o u p - o f - d a v i s
L U G O D
 
Next Meeting:
September 2: Social Gathering
Next Installfest:
Sat. Sept. 27, 10am-6pm
Latest News:
Aug. 30: September Installfest scheduled
Page last updated:
2003 Aug 14 07:30
Events
 Meetings
 Installfests
 Demos
 Photos
Services
 Library
 LERT
 Jobs
 Documents
Interact
 Mailing Lists
 - Search
 - Archives
 Chat
About Us
 Members
 Projects
 Testimonials
 Call for Speakers
 Why Not MS?
 Finances
 Sponsors

^Home
?Search
?News & RSS
?Calendar
@Contact Us
$Buy Stuff
=Printable


The following is an archive of a post made to our 'vox-tech mailing list' by one of its subscribers.

Report this post as spam:

(Enter your email address)
Re: [vox-tech] X server crashed?
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [vox-tech] X server crashed?



Katie, what distro are you running by chance? On Debian, there is a log
file created called /var/log/XFree86.?.log (where ? is the screen
number; i.e. 0). It is a *very* detailed output of the last X session.

If you have this file, peruse it, especially near the end, to see if
there are any obvious error (EE) lines. Either attach the file to your
next post, or make it available via http.

Otherwise, I'm not sure about other distros, where the detailed X log is
kept.

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 17:36, Katie wrote:
> --- "R. Douglas Barbieri" <doug@dooglio.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:51, Katie wrote:
> > > It doesn't appear to be CPU overheating.  Here's what happens:
> > > 
> > > [katie@bob katie]$startx
> > >  info scrolls by really fast
> > >  screen blinks to black, then blinks back
> > >  info pops up with version  & release date blah, blah, default
> > settings
> > > using vt 7
> > > 
> > > waiting for x server to shut down
> > > 
> > > [katie@bon katie]$
> > > 
> > > I'm totally clueless as to why this happened.  I haven't made any
> > changes
> > > in months.
> > > 
> > 
> > Try just running "xinit". What happens then? Do you get a gui session
> > with an xterm? Or does it exhibit the same behaviour?
> 
> xinit does the same thing
> 
> Katie
> 
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
> http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
> _______________________________________________
> vox-tech mailing list
> vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
-- 
R. Douglas Barbieri
doug@dooglio.net
http://www.dooglio.net

GPG Fingerprint : FE6A 6A57 2B95 7594 E534  BFEE 45F1 9E5E F30A 8A27
MIT.edu recv-key: F6368A3D
GPG Public key  : http://www.dooglio.net/dooglio.asc

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part



Hosting provided by:
Sunset Systems
Sunset Systems offers preconfigured Linux systems, remote system administration and custom software development.

CD Burns Wanted!

LUGOD: Linux Users' Group of Davis
1105 Kennedy Place, Suite 1, Davis, CA 95616
Contact Us

LUGOD is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
based in Davis, California
and serving the Sacramento area.
"Linux" is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Sponsored in part by:
No Starch Press
For book donations.