From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932107AbWAORhD (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:37:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932129AbWAORhB (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:37:01 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.85]:56850 "EHLO anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932107AbWAORhB (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:37:01 -0500 Message-ID: <43CA883B.2020504@superbug.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:36:59 +0000 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060112) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux mailing-list Subject: X killed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I have a python application that kills X. I.e. the X process terminates, and all X programs receive broken links to the display and therefore also exit. The problem is, this python application is not supposed to kill anything, so I think it is a bug in X, but I cannot find any way to trace the fault. Even gdb says the application was killed, so exited normally, and results in no back trace. Is there any way in Linux to find out who did the "killing" ? James