Re: X still crashing

["David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>]

   From: Ryan Cresawn <cresawn@arbs1.larc.nasa.gov>
   Date:   Wed,  1 Sep 1999 09:21:42 -0400 (EDT)

   I am still having problems with X crashing on my Ultra2 with Creator
   3D.  I am running RH 6.0 with kernel 2.2.12 and I have applied all the 
   RPM updates from Redhat.  I estimate that X crashes as often as 2-3
   times per day, but at least once a day.  Here is my "/etc/X11/X"
   script.

Ok, first thing, double check the server rpm you have installed
by running "rpm -qvf /usr/X11R6/bin/Xsun24", it should print out
"XFree86-Sun24-3.3.3.1-52"

    #!/bin/bash

    # the following 4 lines added for debugging purposes
    export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libSegFault.so
    export SEGFAULT_USE_ALTSTACK=1
    export SEGFAULT_SIGNALS=all
    export SEGFAULT_OUTPUT_NAME=/tmp/Xsun24.segv.$$

    exec ../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xsun24 -fp unix/:-1 $@

   I have never seen a file in /tmp created by this script.  Here's one
   more thing I've noticed when X crashes.  As it is crashing the first
   thing it does is paint about a one inch wide black border around the
   display, it freezes for a moment, then goes to all black, restarts X,
   and finally displays the X login prompt.

Unfortunately I believe that since the X server wrapper is so anal,
you won't get a dump file unless you run the server by beginning your
sessing hand as root from the console.  So change such that xdm/X does
not run by default with the X login screen, login as root from the
console, and start an X session with plain "startx".  It should give
you a dump using that.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com