Alan McKinnon schrieb: >> Sometimes my gnome-session (2.28) works for hours, sometimes for minutes. > > What happens when X crashes? Does the X session go away? Is there an error > message? Or does it just hang?
The whole X-session restarts, as if I do "xdm restart" or "ctrl-alt-backspace". I get back to the login-prompt of gdm. No error message, I also browsed the xorg-logs, dmesg, /var/log/messages ... nothing related as far as I understand. > Your symptoms as described are random, I find far more often than not that is > hardware, usually the power supply, ram and video card (in that order) > > Give your hardware a thorough stress test, then only start playing with > downgrades Hmm, I don't know ... why should a hardware-problem only shoot X11 ... ? It should crash then also when I dualboot windows xp for gaming (it does not crash there even under quite high gaming load). OK, RAM might do that, I had a customers pc which rebooted (! reboot, not only kicking off one app) here and then because of defective RAM. I start some memtest while having my coffee just to check that out for a start. But I really assume some other reason, as I only recently went up to ~amd64 ... for me it is much more likely that maybe the step up to xorg-server 1.7.x or something related might be the reason here. bugs.gentoo.org didn't really list such a bug, maybe I should file one. But to me it seems a bit early as I can't reproduce it or really show some error-messages so far. Greets, Stefan
