Xorg crashes...

[Ryan Daly]

On 01/08/2010 03:50 AM, Tom Cowell wrote:
> I'm a novice here - excuse me butting int, and ignore me if this isn't useful.
> 
> If I understand correctly, you have:
> 
> a) The X Server receives SIGTERM and exits.
> b) The source of the SIGTERM is unknown (but perhaps one of the
> clients of the X Server).
> c) You can reproduce this by starting X and the console command line.
> 
> What about tracing all of this with strace? e.g.:
> 
> strace -fo <suitable_log_file_name> startx
> 
> This will generate a vast amount of output, including the part where
> the X Server receives SIGTERM and exists. Hopefully, a little bit
> before this, you might see another process sending the SIGTERM with
> kill().

No, no.  Thanks for the input.

I've run Xorg under a debugger and it has produced some backtraces.  I'm 
not sure if running strace would produce anything beyond what gdb is 
already providing.  I could be wrong, though.
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