Xorg crashes...

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 08:23:45 PST 2010


On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Ryan Daly <daly at ctc.com> wrote:
>> On 01/08/2010 10:11 AM, Tom Cowell wrote:
>>> I was responding to this remark from Peter Hutterer:
>>>
>>>>> uhm. SIGTERM is the termination signal. Something's shutting down your
>>>>> server.
>>>
>>> If SIGTERM is coming from another process, then the debugger won't
>>> provide any information about _which_ process. However, a recursive
>>> strace of startx (and all its children and grandchildren) _might_
>>> identify the source of the signal. Even if the X Server is killing
>>> itself with SIGTERM, that would be worth knowing.
>>>
>>> However, if it stays up for days before crashing, strace might
>>> generate an unacceptable amount of output.
>>
>> I gotcha...  I'll try that and post any relevant information.
>
> FYI, the error in the log on launchpad was a segfault (SIGSEGV), so
> you appear to have two different errors. The segfault (signal 11)
> should be fixable. The mysterious SIGTERM might be tough to handle
> since it could come from anywhere.

Peter, do you have any ideas about this one:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37615863/gdb-Xorg.txt

--
Dan



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