Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:26:29PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > but that is induced by a very specific situation: dragging an active > mplayer window from my left-hand screen to my right hand-screen (which > gives me a blank mplayer frame) and then dragging it back. crashes > every time.

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:39:05PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:29:40AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [much snipping] > > > I've seen some xorg crashes lately too... mostly caused by mplayer, > > but not reliably. I'll grab my backtrace too. > > > contact the xorg

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:29:40AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [much snipping] > I've seen some xorg crashes lately too... mostly caused by mplayer, > but not reliably. I'll grab my backtrace too. > contact the xorg team (Debian X strike force?) and see what they > say... I'll wait unti

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:07:04PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Per Andrew's advice, I started X in VT1 using startx. During each of the > multiple xorg crashes today (!) I got this: > > > > Backtrace: > 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c8591] > 1: [0xb7f36420] > 2: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
Switching from icewm to fluxbox didn't make any difference. Now I can kill X just by having VLC *open* and task-switching from iceweasel to the open vlc window using alt-tab. This is ludicrous. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blog

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
Per Andrew's advice, I started X in VT1 using startx. During each of the multiple xorg crashes today (!) I got this: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c8591] 1: [0xb7f36420] 2: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80ddae5] 3: /usr/bin/X11/X(miHandleValidateExposures+0x78) [0x813b828] 4: /usr/

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
xOn Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:00:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:33:43PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I tried switching to VLC. I was resetting the hotkeys, clicked Save, and > > xorg restarted. > > how are you start X? xdm > have you looked in .Xsession-erro

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:33:43PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I tried switching to VLC. I was resetting the hotkeys, clicked Save, and > xorg restarted. how are you start X? have you looked in .Xsession-errors? anything showing in the VT from which X was started (usually VT-1 if using *dm). .