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powrHouse

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Registered: 2021-05-01

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[SOLVED] X11 crashing

Hi all,

X11 has started crashing a few minutes into every session today.  The screen will go black and I have to either force quit X11 with a key combination input, or switch ttys. I haven't updated anything Xorg related, so I'm not sure what could have triggered this behaviour. Attached is my xorg.conf log from one such crashed session. At around 184s, X11 seems to be continuously querying my laptop screen, until a number of "flip queue errors" starting appearing. Thank you for any help!

https://pastebin.com/QrEP3Ldb

Last edited by powrHouse (2021-05-01 06:50:57)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 crashing

You're losing control over the drm device/console.

- Are there parallel (amdgpu/drm) errors in dmesg?
- How do you start the session? xinit?
- Can you mitigate the problem by running Xorg as root?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg - NOT "sudo"!
Force "yes" and ensure that /usr/lib/Xorg.wrap is suid' (there's bug in some recent package version)

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powrHouse

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Registered: 2021-05-01

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 crashing

Seemed to have solved it: I had a small typo in a hotplug script that I had forgotten that I had adjusted since my last system reboot. This script was getting called at boot when my screen was recognized, and looping calls to xrandr which eventually lead to it crashing.