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Jedi Stannis

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Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 65

X crashes randomly

I have been getting some unusual X crashes recently.  While using my computer X will simply shutdown, bringing me back to the command line.  I'm not sure what is triggering this.  Here is the error message:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80bddee]
1: [0xb7f9f420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb7012419]
3: /usr/bin/X [0x816e01d]
4: /usr/bin/X(CompositePicture+0x150) [0x8155310]
5: /usr/bin/X [0x815b2ef]
6: /usr/bin/X [0x81581a5]
7: /usr/bin/X [0x814b98e]
8: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x2bf) [0x808c9cf]
9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x48b) [0x8073f3b]
10: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7d6d390]
11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x209) [0x80732b1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

eerok

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-03-20

Posts: 171

Re: X crashes randomly

Maybe hardware.  That's been my experience when things start crashing randomly.

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perseus

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Registered: 2007-01-28

Posts: 160

Re: X crashes randomly

I have been getting some unusual X crashes recently.  While using my computer X will simply shutdown, bringing me back to the command line.  I'm not sure what is triggering this.

I know it *is* often hardware, but oddly enough I have had two such random crashes this morning.  I am using the current X server and upgraded the nvidia driver yesterday.  I have not preserved the whole output, but the X-Org log says :

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80baf4e]
1: [0xb7fba420]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Jedi Stannis

Member

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 65

Re: X crashes randomly

I also use the nvidia driver, and continue to experience crashes