Fonts disappearing, artifacts and segfaults (redone)

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:24:30PM +0200, Michael v.Vierssen wrote:
> I've done the following:
> 
> - Using the NV driver instead of the closed NVidia driver.
>   Not tainting the kernel in any way and 3D acceleration disabled.
> - Getting a backtrace of Metacity segfaulting. See links.
> 
> The crashes and artifacts (see quoted message below) still occur :(
> 
> Please see the following links:
> http://satl.com/segfaults_and_artifacts/metacity-bt.txt
> http://satl.com/segfaults_and_artifacts/xsession-errors
> http://satl.com/segfaults_and_artifacts/Xorg.0.log
> http://satl.com/segfaults_and_artifacts/xorg.conf
> http://satl.com/segfaults_and_artifacts/kernel-log.txt
> http://satl.com/segfaults_and_artifacts/lsmod.txt
> http://satl.com/segfaults_and_artifacts/lspci.txt
> http://satl.com/segfaults_and_artifacts/lshw.txt
> 
> Could it be the hardware? And where should I look next?

Yeah, at this point I'd suggest just running memtest86 and some other
tools like that to determine basic system health.  This looks completely
random.  Is your system overheating? Is your CPU overclocked?

Cheers,
Daniel
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