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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#18780: KDE crashes - more info
From:       Chris Ross <devel () tebibyte ! org>
Date:       2001-01-30 9:16:01
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This is mentioned in the XFree86 documentation. If the parameters X needs
to set up the display (available resolutions, monitor capabilties, etc)
are determined by the server itself at runtime rather than configured
explicitly by you, it is possible under very heavy system load that the
Server will get the wrong answers when it queries the hardware. Of course,
starting the X Server in itself can dramatically increase the system load
at that instant.

If it is X that isn't starting, rather than KDE, chances are this is the
problem. As you've found, starting X again is probably the answer. It's
unlikely to happen twice in a row unless your machine is severely
overloaded.

Regards,
Chris


On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Michael Brade wrote:

> On Monday 22 January 2001 12:14, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:44:46AM +0000, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
> > > > This one seems to be from kicker after clicking on the calendar in the
> > > > panel. I don't think that it is related if you say that you got the
> > > > crash after some minutes of inactivity.
> > >
> > > Hi Waldo: KDE just crashed again - again this was after about 30 mins of
> > > inactivity. Unfortunately it didn't generate a core file so I couldn't
> > > get a backtrace. :( All I got is the output below from the terminal
> > > window.
> > > Could you suggest how I could force KDE/X to generate a core file?
> >
> > not sure this is related, but I sometimes experienced X crashing/aborting
> > (didn't investigate yet, because it's not reproducable) right on
> > startup (startx). The next start always worked perfectly. XFree 4.0.2 with
> > G400.
> Heh, I had the same crash on startx. I think this occures if my computer is 
> very busy at the moment I do the "startx" and the sycoca needs to be updated.
> 
> > Not really helpful, but I'll try to investigate next time. My .X.err didn't
> > contain anything useful :-/
> Hmm, mine not either...
> 
> Ciao,
>   Michael
> 
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