Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:19:18 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "frogger3099" <frogger3099@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Computer Crashing after X is open Message-ID: <01111508191805.00671@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <001301c16db5$3200b5a0$0500a8c0@roylok1.mi.home.com> References: <000801c16d95$9bf0f8a0$0500a8c0@roylok1.mi.home.com> <01111423561303.00671@i8k.babbleon.org> <001301c16db5$3200b5a0$0500a8c0@roylok1.mi.home.com>
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On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:09, you wrote: > I'm using freebsd 4.4 (tried 4.3, it did the same thing) I'm using GNOME > 1.4, I'm using XFree86 3.3.6, my video card isn't supported under 4.1 > yet. If i'm in X for like an hour not being idle and exit everything is > fine...but like if i idle for like 20 minutes, everything appears to be > good til i exit out of X then I can't do anything because I get a lot of > weird characters and don't go back to a console. A core doesn't get dumped > either. How are exiting X? Have you tried CTRL-ALT-backsapace CTRL-ALT-F1 CTRL-ALT-F2 ALT-F1 ALT-F2 CTRL-ALT-DELETE to see if they do anything? Once it gets into this "weird state", how do you get control back? When you reboot the next time does FreeBSD have to recover all the disk partitions or does it reboot cleanly? PS: If you group-reply to the the message, then everybody on the list can see your reply. I'm happy to help, and I do know something about FreeBSD, but the knowlege of the group far exceeds the knowledge of any individual within it, so you'll get more info if you cc: the entire group. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> > To: "frogger3099" <frogger3099@home.com>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 8:56 PM > Subject: Re: Computer Crashing after X is open > > > On Thursday 15 November 2001 00:23, frogger3099 wrote: > > > Hi, freebsd is great, i like it a lot. The only thing is I can't > > > figure out why it crashes after about 10-20 minutes of being idle in X. > > > If i leave my computer alone in a console it won't crash. But after I > > > leave > > it > > > > alone in X for 10 - 20 minutes then exit out of X the kernel has > > crashed. > > > > I asked the network admin at my work but he couldn't figure it out > > either > > > > so I was hoping that you might be able to. Thank You > > > > Well, . . . . > > > > - X is still ok, but after you exit it, the computer crashes, or > > - After 20 idle minutes it crashes? > > > > If the latter, it's almost certainly that your window manager or other > > process is trying to bring up a screen saver and that's killing things. > > > > But we'll need a lot more data to be able to help: > > > > - FreeBSD version? > > - X version? > > - Window manager? > > - xlock set up? > > - When it crashes, what exactly happens? > > - How do you know the kernel is crashing? What messages appear on your > > screen (kernel "panic" message? Something else?) > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Content-Description: > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > -- > > Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) > > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > > http://www.babbleon.org > > > > -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- > > > > http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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