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MONODA

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X11 is crashing

every couple of times that I run startx to start the X server, I am presented with a black screen that is blank except for a cursor in the top left corner of the screen.  When this happens, I cannot kill X or change to another virtual terminal. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I have properly set up my graphics card with the nvidia proprietary driver. I have a geforce 7400. I am running an install from the RC install cd but have also experienced this is previous installations of the stable version on the same pc.

bangkok_manouel

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Re: X11 is crashing

you may want to provide xorg logs to get some answers.

finferflu

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Re: X11 is crashing

Try to look at the Xorg logs in /var/log and see if you find anything "interesting".

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MONODA

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Re: X11 is crashing

everything I saw was pretty much expected (nothing "interesting")
i cant post the entire file, it is several pages long.

finferflu

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Re: X11 is crashing

I actually don't know if I may be able to spot anything, since I'm not so experienced with Xorg, but if you want to post extensive information, please use pastebin (or your favourite pastebin website)

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bangkok_manouel

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Re: X11 is crashing

your .xinitrc + xorg.conf would be welcome as well.

MONODA

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Re: X11 is crashing

that website will come in handy for sure later on for me anyway, here is the link for the contents of my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
http://pastebin.com/m5fb43287
thanks for your help.

MONODA

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Re: X11 is crashing

for my xorg.conf: http://pastebin.com/d2f677ec8
.xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh

#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#
# exec xterm
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# exec icewm
exec openbox
# exec blackbox
# exec fluxbox
# exec ratpoison
# exec dwm
# ... or any other WM of your choosing ...

bangkok_manouel

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Re: X11 is crashing

didn't check anything yet but you may want to try:

exec openbox-session

in your .xinitrc

MONODA

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Re: X11 is crashing

well I have exec openbox but not openbox-session is there any difference?

finferflu

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Re: X11 is crashing

well I have exec openbox but not openbox-session is there any difference?

You're the one who can tell

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MONODA

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Re: X11 is crashing

well I changed openbox to openbox-session and it loads OpenBox but with a grey background which I like more. It also seems a bit faster...(weird) I will come back here if I get any problems.

bangkok_manouel

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Re: X11 is crashing

well I changed openbox to openbox-session and it loads OpenBox but with a grey background which I like more. It also seems a bit faster...(weird) I will come back here if I get any problems.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox is a good start.

festgreifaah

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Re: X11 is crashing

I experienced the same problems as you.

But since I couldn't reproduce the error and didn't find anything helpful in the xorg logfile, I can't really say what the problem is.
Btw, I also own a Geforce Go 7400.

I changed the autodetection for my usb  mouse from "auto" to "Explorer/PS2", that's what I found in the logfile.
I also declared the touchpad as "CorePointer" and set the usb mouse to "SendCoreEvents". (Don't ask why!)

The problem didn't occur any more since I changed xorg.conf, but, as I said, that doesn't mean anything, because I was not able to reproduce the error.

I'll post it here, if x won't start.

Oh, I think it's not a openbox related problem. I used xdm for a while and when this particular problem occured, there was no login screen. I couldn't even login to the console.

MONODA

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Re: X11 is crashing

it happened again, but this time while starting rat poison. In my xinitrc I had:
exec ratpoison instead of exec openbox-session.

MONODA

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Re: X11 is crashing

The system I am running was installed from the RC disk, would that make a difference?