Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:27:34 +0000 From: "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE 3.2/Xwindows dying strangely without warning Message-ID: <BAY2-F143lkkOO1Spm70001597d@hotmail.com>
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>Ok, I can't contribute this to anything I've ever encountered or >something that I'm doing, but it seems that after about 7-10 days KDE >just dies on me. No crash, no errors, no "I'm gonna shut down". >Nothing. I will be working along and then suddenly it's just not there. >Even the logs show nothing. No core dumps, no memory errors, not even >an Xwindows shutting down message. I had this happen to me today. I clicked on a link in konq, the drive started spinning and everything else locked up. A few minutes later X died and I was back at the kdm screen. I found this in /var/log/messages ... Apr 18 13:12:21 homer /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Apr 18 13:12:22 homer /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Apr 18 13:12:22 homer /kernel: pid 66243 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space Apr 18 13:12:33 homer kdm[209]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly I guess it's a good thing that X gets killed instead of having to reboot, but... aagh! There must have been some other process causing the problem. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
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