On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:18:45AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote:
> > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, > > and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... > > > > I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX > > 5200 using the nvidia binary driver. I've had this problem on both a > > home-rolled 2.4.22 kernel and the Debian 2.6.7-SMP kernel-package. > > Do you get the same problem with the generic VESA drivers? (no modules > in the kernel, just Driver "vesa" - works for my SiS 315 even though > they say it's unsupported) Hm, haven't tried that yet... Maybe I'll run it for a while with XFree's "nv" driver instead, which IIRC supports the card but with no 3D acceleration. In light of Hendrick having what looks like the same problem on a different brand of video card, however, this seems like a long shot. > > Every couple of days or so X seems to die an abrupt death. The display > > will freeze completely, keyboard input has no effect (including > > CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE). The system is still running, > > though: If XMMS is playing when the problem hits, the music keeps on > > going; and I can ssh in to the box no problem. If I kill -9 the XDM and > > /usr/X11R6/bin/X processes then the screen goes black... but then doing > > /etc/init.d/xdm start just silently fails. So I've been ssh-ing in just > > to reboot the box. > > Try deleting the pidfile before restarting xdm. (/var/run/xdm.pid) > Or perhaps just do sudo startx? Deleting that pidfile made no visible difference. ssh-ing in as my regular user and running startx produced some output that can be found at http://shorty.ca/logs/startx.Xcrash.txt > > Now, I've had this happen while I was surfing the web, and while the > > screensaver was running, and sometimes after the monitor has gone to > > sleep (oh, and once in the middle of a game of armagetron). > > > > A "tail" of XFree86.0.log shows a bunch of GetModeLine entries, but > > nothing that looks like error or panic or "ack! I'm dying!"... > > I've done an 8-hr run of memtest86 with no complaints at all, the > > temperature seems to be happy, and loading the crap out of the system > > doesn't make it fail (I tried 5 hours of a kernel-compile loop, and 2 > > hours of cpuburn with no problems). > > When you ssh in, does "dmesg" show anything abnormal? Looks normal enough to my rather untrained eye, but here it is: http://shorty.ca/logs/dmesg.Xcrash.txt And just for the sake of argument, here's my XFree86 log after the latest crash: http://shorty.ca/logs/XFree86.0.log.Xcrash.txt Thanks! -- -------------------------------<<ScruLoose>>------------------------------- What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? - Ursula K. LeGuin --------------------------<<Please do not CC me>>--------------------------
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