On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, mulix wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > > > For what it's worth, I have the kscd applet running (CD player), and > > quite frequently before such a hang, the applet crashes (SIGSEGV). > > However that is not exclusive. I smell something in the KDE panel - > > perhaps one or more of the applets. The trouble is, that in a hang > > of this kind, nothing gets to the logs. > > let me get this straight - it's KDE that's crashing, and perhaphs also > X, right? why do you think nothing gets to the log?
It is XFree that hangs. KDE is all user applications. X is the one operating a virtual console (and runs as root, with the power to freeze the console) > > run kde under strace. enable whatever debug options kde has. and the > next time this happens, ssh into your machine from another machine, and > see what you can gleam from the logs. I figure that running X under strace is more tricky. Maybe you need to have something like 'strace Xserver' in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
