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#1 2009-10-20 23:09:06

vinoman2
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Sudden Crashes

It's happened a couple of times lately but today was the worst: I was playing a cd with amarok, and working on a webpage with Bluefish and gFTP, Gimp and had Firefox open and all of a sudden while  saving a photo everything crashed! it took me to the login screen.

What could cause this? This is the worst crash I've seen with Arch. Any ideas?

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#2 2009-10-20 23:46:04

tavianator
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Re: Sudden Crashes

Sounds like X crashed - there have been numerous updates to graphics drivers lately, which probably caused this instability.  If it happens again, you could try the xorg-server from testing.

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#3 2009-10-21 00:44:06

vinoman2
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Re: Sudden Crashes

tavianator wrote:

Sounds like X crashed - there have been numerous updates to graphics drivers lately, which probably caused this instability.  If it happens again, you could try the xorg-server from testing.

Do you think that would be better? What is the command?

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#4 2009-10-21 13:55:45

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Re: Sudden Crashes

It's possible.  If you want to try it, enable [testing] in /etc/pacman.conf and do pacman -Syu.  If you don't want other stuff from testing, you can run pacman -S testing/xorg-server testing/xf86-video-<whatever> testing/xf86-input-<whatever> etc.

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#5 2009-10-21 14:10:10

vinoman2
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Re: Sudden Crashes

I just ran # pacman -Syu  and I see that some Gnome components were updated. I'll see if that helps. If I don't get a crash in the next day or two then maybe the updates helped.

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#6 2009-10-22 18:44:32

liquidBass
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Re: Sudden Crashes

This exact same issue happened a few months ago. It only crashes once during a session, and it's for certain that it WILL crash. It's really weird though because after the first crash, I can have my system running for days with no issues. If I restart on the other hand, X is sure to die on me. Really annying neutral

Wish I knew how it got fixed the first time around, so I could do it myself this time, instead of waiting for an update sad

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#7 2009-10-22 20:01:05

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Re: Sudden Crashes

Hmm... I'll bet you're using Gnome.  Many others have experienced this problem too which seems to be linked to gdm.  See this thread for more.  The solution for me was to simply downgrade gdm until v2.28 is fixed.  That said, I just today upgraded to 2.28-1 and will see if the -1 release fixed it.


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#8 2009-11-15 14:29:48

virusso80
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Re: Sudden Crashes

Hi guys,
i'm experiencing this problem always with gimp:
i'm copying images from a pdf to gimp. When i try to select an item in the gimp toolbox (like resize etc) it crashes and goes back to the login screen. I'm using kdemod...the problem is the same i guess.

I thought it was because of gimp, so i tried to delete the .gimp folder..but no difference. I thought about okular but same problem with acroread!

very annoying sad, i cannot do anything!!

Is there any file i can check? my system is updated every week.

Thanks in advance

Last edited by virusso80 (2009-11-15 14:31:57)

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