On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:43:35PM -0000, Jim Higson wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:27:40 -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Jim Higson wrote: > >>but after a few seconds moment there is a fatal server error: caught > >>signal 11. Server aborting. > >> > >>I rebooted. This time I get the login screen, I type my > >>username/pasword (mouse still working), KDE starts loading but about > >>halfway through takes me back to the login screen. After a few tries I > >>try signing in as root, but this time it throws me out to the comand > >>line! > >> > >>I've noticed there are a few errors reported in the syslog relating to > >>fonts, plus one towards the end of XFree86.0.log. Get newly uploaded > >>versions here again: http://users.aber.ac.uk/jqh1/x/ > > > >I don't see anything obvious; the font errors should be ignorable for > >now. I suspect a problem with KDE; I'd suggest you try something simpler > >for now, like icewm (apt-get install icewm, and then choose icewm from > >the menu in your login screen if it exists, or create a file in your > >home directory with the name .xinitrc with the single line "icewm" in > >it). > > I'm familiar with KDE though, and really like using it. In face, it > was KDE that persuaded me to move my main computer over to linux. > > Now I've got one thing sorted out, another presents itself. I can't > even find what this singal 11 means!
"Signal 11" is a segmentation fault: it means that a process accessed memory that didn't belong to it. It's always either a hardware problem or a software bug. That said, it may be possible to work around the bug with a configuration change. > From the pov of a new user these problems look like bugs in debian > stable! They probably are, yes. > Should I stick with debian, or is switching to another distro a better > idea? You could play distribution whack-a-mole :-), but I don't think there's any particular reason why the X server crash you're seeing would be Debian-specific. You could try a newer X server, which might be a good option; various people have produced backports of newer versions of the xserver-xfree86 package to stable. I don't know enough about X to debug the real problem here, though. I'd also report a bug. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
