Xorg crashes...

[Tom Cowell]

What was/is in the .xmodmaprc?

2010/1/18 Ryan Daly <daly at ctc.com>:
> On 01/18/2010 03:17 PM, Ryan Daly wrote:
>> I was able to start Xorg w/ 'startx' as root.  I'm writing trace files
>> out, so as soon as I get it to exit on me, I'll look through and see
>> what's left.
>
> One bad thing...  The strace files started taking up so much room that I
> needed to stop the session I was running.
>
> But, I noticed something while I was running as "root."  I was up for
> about 3 hours without any trouble.  I noticed while I was logged in that
> my alt, shift, and ctrl keys weren't working.  That prompted me to start
> poking around and I found that I had a $HOME/.xmodmaprc.  I'm wondering
> if this could have any impact on things.  Could it be possible that
> something was mapped in such a way that when a particular key sequence
> was hit it caused my session to exit?  I know Gnome maps keys on its
> own.  Maybe I was confusing things by having $HOME/.xmodmaprc in place.
>
> I have since removed $HOME/.xmodmaprc and restarted my X session, but
> I'm running as myself.  I'm still unable to strace this because of the
> earlier permissions issue that was posted.  I'd still like to hear
> thoughts regarding this, though.  Thanks.
>
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