On Sb, 30 iun 12, 09:31:24, MR ZenWiz wrote: > This may be a little OT, but I've tried other "more relevant" OS lists > and not gotten anywhere.
But please (at least) mention [OT] in the subject, like I did. > I recently updated all the computers I use on a regular basis from > Ubuntu 10.10 to Xubuntu 12.04. To its credit, this boots up to a > graphic of Debian, which is, after all, the underlying OS distro for > all Ubuntu systems. Ubuntu and most other derivatives are customizing some core packages, all we can give is general advice. > The problem I'm seeing is that, on one of my machines, my work desktop > specifically, at some point after grub starts up the right kernel, > when the lightdm display manager is coming up, something kills it. > I've looked in dmesg and the system logs, and there's a record of it > getting killed, but not who is doing it. Show us! (the relevant log snippets) > If I wait until this is > apparent, usually about 30 seconds, then log in directly on a console > and kick it off from the command line, everything is just fine. I > usually run the machine continuously and only reboot it when the > kernel changes or we have a power shutdown, so it's a minor annoyance, > but it shouldn't happen at all. > > I've asked in both the Ubuntu and Xubuntu lists and no one has > ventured an explanation, so I thought I'd ask here. > > One significant difference between my home desktop and my home laptop > (which run fine) and my work desktop (which has this problem) is that > the former two both run AMD CPUs (1 Phenom II x6, 1 Turion x2 I think) > and the latter runs with dual quad-core Xeons (Intel), though I have > trouble believing that this is sufficient to explain the problem. I would rather suspect something related to Xorg (or whatever Ubuntu is using now). For Xorg I would check /var/log/Xorg.0.log *before* starting lightdm from the command line. Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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