[PLUG] Diagnosing Hard Lock-Up

Shannon C. Dealy dealy at deatech.com
Sat Aug 10 23:31:54 UTC 2002


On 10 Aug 2002, AthlonRob wrote:

[snip]
> The fact that you dropped off the network would imply the crash was
> further down than just the screensaver layer.  Think like kernel
> problems.  :-\
[snip]

You would think so, but X has just a little to much access to the kernel,
I have had a number of system crashes over the years that were due to
problems with X.  My most recent was just a couple days ago, I setup a
"new" system (old parts from around the office) to use as a test bed,
installed the latest stable Debian, as soon as gdm starts up, it takes
the system down (at least five times in a row).  Having had previous
problems with gdm and system stability, I switched the system to using xdm
(no packages were installed/uninstalled, all I did was make a one line
configuration change to use xdm as the default instead of gdm), and it
boots/runs just fine every time.

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