Adam Jackson ajackson@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 09:26 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
- X clients occasionally just exit, seemingly losing their connection to the server. For whatever reason, panel applets (and the panel itself) seem especially prone to this one.
I haven't seen this. It might be good to attach strace to one and dump the output somewhere to see what happens just before it exits.
I've been trying. But, when you get one random client disconnecting every hour or so, it's *really* hard to get a useful capture.
Emacs has died once or twice, printing a one-line "lost connection to X server" message.
One interesting data point: I've dropped back to a 2.6.22 kernel and have yet to see the problem. It's only been a couple of hours of work time, so it's too soon to say, but there might be some sort of unix-domain socket weirdness in 2.6.23-rc. If that is true, it would sure be nice to get a handle on it before the final comes out.
Thanks,
jon
Jonathan Corbet / LWN.net / corbet@lwn.net