Xorg crashes...

[Dan Nicholson]

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.

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Dan