On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Any chance you can get a backtrace from gdb? > > well -- I attached to X with gdb in a screen now... and will hope that I > > would be able to get there whenever such accident occurs again
> You'll probably need ssh to access it if/when X crashes. yeah -- I have learned that already while attaching gdb -- that is why there was this conditioning on 'hope' in my statement above since the laptop might be offline at that moment. any particular desires on what to print out besides bt full (which I already entered into the buffer in the screen, and enabled logging)? > > or alternatively -- which particular package to check for the upgraded > > version (if that is of interest anyways)? > /usr/bin/X is just a wrapper, it basically doesn't do anything except > execve(/usr/bin/Xorg). So the package you're looking for is > xserver-xorg-core. ok -- this would be a more complete picture then: $> grep 'upgrade xserver-xorg' /var/log/dpkg.log 2012-07-03 09:52:32 upgrade xserver-xorg:amd64 1:7.6+12 1:7.6+13 2012-07-11 13:31:20 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-intel:amd64 2:2.18.0-1 2:2.19.0-4 2012-07-11 13:31:20 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-dummy:amd64 1:0.3.5-2 1:0.3.5-2+b1 2012-07-11 13:31:21 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-vesa:amd64 1:2.3.0-7+b1 1:2.3.1-1+b1 2012-07-11 13:31:21 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-fbdev:amd64 1:0.4.2-4+b2 1:0.4.2-4+b3 2012-07-11 13:31:21 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-apm:amd64 1:1.2.3-2+b2 1:1.2.3-3 2012-07-11 13:31:22 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-void:amd64 1:1.4.0-1 1:1.4.0-1+b1 2012-07-11 13:31:22 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:amd64 1.5.99.901-1 1.6.2-1 2012-07-11 13:31:23 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-evdev:amd64 1:2.7.0-1 1:2.7.0-1+b1 2012-07-11 13:31:23 upgrade xserver-xorg-core:amd64 2:1.11.4-1 2:1.12.1.902-1 2012-07-11 14:43:17 upgrade xserver-xorg:amd64 1:7.6+13 1:7.7+1 2012-07-11 14:43:20 upgrade xserver-xorg-dev:amd64 2:1.11.4-1 2:1.12.1.902-1 2012-07-11 21:52:19 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-nvidia:amd64 295.59-1 302.17-3 -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120716181224.gq21...@onerussian.com
