Hello,

I am running Debian Sid on a Thinkpad T61, and everything seems to
work fine except for more and more strange things that cause my X
server to restart. I've mostly ignored them up until now, but I'm
starting to get annoyed.

So, with that said, here are a list of things that have the same
effect as a Ctrl+Alt+Backspace on my system

Log out (using xfce-session-logout) doesn't just log out - it kills
gdm and causes it to restart.
setxkbmap: I was trying to switch keyboard layouts and X went poof
Openoffice.org 2.4 - As soon as I try to access a menu whether with
the mouse or with Alt, X crashes and I have to log back in, losing all
my work. At first, I thought it was just OO.o 2.4 beta's being buggy,
but now that they've released it and it still happens, I suspect
something else is going on.

Any ideas / suggestions on how to debug these situations?

Would appreciate any - thanks!
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Jimmy Wu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Debian Sid on a Thinkpad T61, and everything seems to
> work fine except for more and more strange things that cause my X
> server to restart. I've mostly ignored them up until now, but I'm
> starting to get annoyed.
>
> So, with that said, here are a list of things that have the same
> effect as a Ctrl+Alt+Backspace on my system
>
> Log out (using xfce-session-logout) doesn't just log out - it kills
> gdm and causes it to restart.
> setxkbmap: I was trying to switch keyboard layouts and X went poof
> Openoffice.org 2.4 - As soon as I try to access a menu whether with
> the mouse or with Alt, X crashes and I have to log back in, losing all
> my work. At first, I thought it was just OO.o 2.4 beta's being buggy,
> but now that they've released it and it still happens, I suspect
> something else is going on.
>
> Any ideas / suggestions on how to debug these situations?
>
> Would appreciate any - thanks!
>

First thing I'd suspect is being out of drive space on one of your
partitions.

If that's not the issue, I'd create a new user and use that user for
long enough to get a feel for if it's user-related.

I'd also try a different window manager/environment for a while.


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Jimmy Wu wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running Debian Sid on a Thinkpad T61, and everything seems to
> work fine except for more and more strange things that cause my X
> server to restart. I've mostly ignored them up until now, but I'm
> starting to get annoyed.

> Any ideas / suggestions on how to debug these situations?

My suggestion is to stop all the [xgk]dm. Then start X from command line
using startx and see if there are any errors. Also
check /var/log/Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession-errors for any possible errors and
fix them.

hth
raju
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> Jimmy Wu wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am running Debian Sid on a Thinkpad T61, and everything seems to
> > > > work fine except for more and more strange things that cause my X
> > > > server to restart. I've mostly ignored them up until now, but I'm
> > > > starting to get annoyed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > Sorry for the really long no-response period - I've been busy, and
> > since this issue isn't really mission critical, I've been living with
> > it or working around it for quite a while.
> >
> > Disk space is definitely not the problem - I have plenty of room on
> > all partitions. I tried creating a new user (with adduser), but the
> > new user has the same problem.
> >
> > I don't really want to install another desktop environment or wm, but
> > the problem happened whether I was using xfwm or compiz.
> >
> > That's all I have time for right now - thanks for the .
> >
> >
>
> In that case, I'd rum memtest86.

I installed and ran memtest86+, and it reported no errors. As a
update - x restarting on openoffice.org must have been a bug an the
oo.o side, because it's fixed now. However, logging out of XFCE4
still causes X to restart (by which I mean the nvidia splash screen
pops up, so gdm must have restarted)
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