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Nisaea

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Registered: 2014-10-19

Posts: 10

[Given up] Xorg randomly crashing

Hello everyone.

I'm out of ideas about how to deal with this so if anyone has a clue I'd be forever grateful. Here's the deal:

I'm running Gnome and sometimes, randomly, my session crashes. Like boom, gdm.
- It always happens when I'm typing something in a shell, usually pressing enter tu run a command or using pageUp/Down.
- it only happened on terminator so far, but I suppose I probably haven't used gnome-terminal long enough to be 100% sure it's ok.
- every time it happens, I get xkbcomp warnings in the logs at the very instant of the crash.

Here's the history of my attempts of fixing this (after an -Syu of course):

1) I had the same messages as this guy here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1084562 and instead of using the Xorg conf files I used dconf-editor to add 'compose:ralt' to the org.gnome.desktop.input-sources.xkb-options list.

2) Then I had the same messages as the original poster https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1105212 and I did exactly what was suggested and edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/basic

3) Now I have yet another type of warning message and I've been searching the web to no avail, hence this post.

Here's the message in the journalctl output:

oct. 23 10:49:41 daryl gdm-Xorg-:1[9713]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
oct. 23 10:49:41 daryl gdm-Xorg-:1[9713]: > Warning:          Type "TWO_LEVEL" has 2 levels, but <SPCE> has 6 symbols
oct. 23 10:49:41 daryl gdm-Xorg-:1[9713]: >                   Ignoring extra symbols
oct. 23 10:49:41 daryl gdm-Xorg-:1[9713]: > Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
oct. 23 10:49:41 daryl gdm-Xorg-:1[9713]: >                   Ignoring extra symbols
oct. 23 10:49:41 daryl gdm-Xorg-:1[9713]: > Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
oct. 23 10:49:41 daryl gdm-Xorg-:1[9713]: >                   Ignoring extra symbols
oct. 23 10:49:41 daryl gdm-Xorg-:1[9713]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

journalctl --since="2014-10-23" : http://pastebin.com/BXUassPE

dmesg: http://pastebin.com/vcyH9ttk

Note: I just realized my AltGr key doesn't work properly anymore... urgh... now I have to copy/paste the pipe symbol to my shell...

$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(azerty)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+fr(oss)+fr(oss):2+inet(evdev)+compose(ralt)"};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"	};
};

$ xmodmap
xmodmap:  up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x69)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Super_L (0x85),  Super_R (0x86),  Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5        ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Mode_switch (0xcb)

If I forgot to paste anything, please tell me and I'll do it right away. Any ideas?

Cheers

Edit: I removed 'compose:ralt' from the org.gnome.desktop.input-sources.xkb-options list and the AltGr key's behavior is back to normal.

Edit2: It also happened when using gnome-terminal so it doesn't seem to be related to terminator.
New journalctl output: http://pastebin.com/sK9acMYB

Edit3: more approproate title?

Edit4: [Given up]

Last edited by Nisaea (2014-11-12 10:26:28)

Nisaea

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Registered: 2014-10-19

Posts: 10

Re: [Given up] Xorg randomly crashing

Ok, so this is not really solved yet but I did two things and the issue looks like it went away:
1) pacman -Syu
2) stopped using X11 forwarding when ssh'ing my lab's servers

Has anyone heard of Xorg exploding because of X11 forwarding?

I'm still hoping to have my original work setup back, so I'll probably test it again when I have a little time to spare on it. Not today though. ASAP.

Cheers

Nisaea

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Registered: 2014-10-19

Posts: 10

Re: [Given up] Xorg randomly crashing

It happened again. It seems less frequent but I'm really feeling desperate right now. I'm really starting to consider giving up on Arch, as unlike me as it is.

New hint though: it seems to be correlated to the use of Vim, somehow. It often happens when execute the vim command.

Cheers

Nisaea

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Registered: 2014-10-19

Posts: 10

Re: [Given up] Xorg randomly crashing

Happend without any terminal opened.   I'm giving up.

Hopefully I'll have the opportunity to try Arch again soon since, aside from that very issue, I was really pleased with it and I want to explore it more. However, this is my work laptop we're talking about here and having it crash randomly is a real handicap.

-> See you soon on another machine!

Cheers

Sayali

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Registered: 2014-12-09

Posts: 1

Re: [Given up] Xorg randomly crashing

Hello,

I am facing the same issue on my Arch linux too. I am running GNOME with gdm. The GNOME shell crashes several times especially when I am using vim or firefox. Please let me know if there is anything that could help fix this problem.

Thank you!

Nisaea

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Registered: 2014-10-19

Posts: 10

Re: [Given up] Xorg randomly crashing

Hello,

Unfortunately I had to change the OS and since it's my work laptop I'm not going to switch back to Arch anytime soon... so it would be wise not to count on me for this.

When you say gnome-shell crashes, is it only gnome-shell (your session should stay open while gnome-shell restarts automatically) or is it more like what I experienced (your session closes abruptly without any form of warning, you end up in front of gdm)? If your session stays open, it might be another issue.

Good luck!

vi2nano

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Registered: 2014-11-27

Posts: 7

Re: [Given up] Xorg randomly crashing

Just curious what Graphics and drivers were you running? I had some similar issues with Gnome/GDM which I no longer encounter since I dropped Gnome/GDM

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