XSession help needed

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Wednesday 14 July 2010 13:01:19 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:18:03 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 20:56:34 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Sunday 11 July 2010 18:25:44 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 11 July 2010 09:56:06 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > Thanks for the offer of help.
> > > > 
> > > > Your welcome
> > > > 
> > > > Eli
> > > 
> > > Hi, Eli.  Here you are: http://pastebin.ca/1899947
> > > 
> > > I was working on several things, so had both Konqueror and Chromium
> > > open with a number of tabs each.  Without warning X crashed.  The
> > > mouse could move the cursor - white arrow on black screen, and the
> > > keyboard appeared to be read - Ctrl-alt-F2 was recognised, and so,
> > > when I tried it eventually, was Ctrl-alt- Del.  Ctrl-alt-backspace did
> > > nothing, though. I tried to use a VT to restart plasma, but I don't
> > > think it's plasma that crashed, I think it was X itself.
> > > 
> > > Hope you have some ideas :-)
> > > 
> > > Anne
> > 
> > Hi Anne
> > 
> > What I can see from the logs that you presented was that all the way down
> > Xwindows seemed to be healthy.
> 
> Well that rules out one thing.  FWIW, Rex also said on IRC that if I could
> move the cursor around with the mouse, like that, X hadn't crashed, so we
> are looking for something else.
> 
> > You say that you were able to switch over to a console. The next time it
> > happens please post the output of
> > 
> > ps aux
> 
> I'll do that.
> 
> > One possibility that comes to mind is that it is very possible that the
> > computer overheated.
> 
> I don't think so.  I run gkrellm, and this laptop reports about 10' cooler
> constantly than my older laptop did when idling.  It never seems to raise
> more than a few degrees.
> 
> > Konqueror /  Chromium) hmmm....
> 
> I have had some problems with Konqueror in the past, which is why I use
> Chromium quite a lot.  It just seems more stable.  I wouldn't be surprised
> to find that Konqueror is implicated.
> 
> > Questions (probably silly). Are you using
> > adobe's flash plugin? Is it the 64 bit version or the 32 bit version?
> 
> I have flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386
> 
> > If
> > the 32 bit version are you using it in a 64 bit environment?
> 
> No.
> 
> > If you are
> > using flash do you experience the same symptoms if you were to use
> > firefox or google-chrome?
> 
> Flash videos run perfectly in FF and Chromium, but not at all in Konqueror.
>  I had clicked on a video link, forgetfully, earlier, so Konqueror would
> have tried to run it and failed.  It's possible that there is a connection
> there.
> 
> At Rex's suggestion, I'm trying xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.12.0 from koji.  In
> this morning's logwatch I see
> 
> WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
>     ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [ ...:  8 Time(s)
>     ACPI Error (psparse-0537):  ...:  8 Time(s)
>     [<f81f1041>] ? i915_error_object_create+0x ...:  5 Time(s)
>     [<f81f1083>] i915_error_object_create+0x ...:  11 Time(s)
>     [<f81f13f2>] i915_handle_error+0x314/0x813 [i91 ...:  4 Time(s)
>     [<f81f140e>] i915_handle_error+0x330/0x813 [i91 ...:  7 Time(s)
>     render error detected, EIR: 0 ...:  157 Time(s)
> 
> I don't think the ACPI errors have any connection, but the rest probably
> do. I haven't yet trawled through logs to find out exactly when this
> happened, so I don't know whether it is building up to the crash, or
> whether it concerns the new driver.  Later today I'll see if I can put a
> time on them.
> 
> One thing I have found in the logs - prior to installing this experimental
> driver, the kdm.log showed
> 
> intel_bufmgr_gem.c:1069: Error setting domain 601: Input/output error
> intel_bufmgr_gem.c:1069: Error setting domain 828: Input/output error
> intel_bufmgr_gem.c:1069: Error setting domain 639: Input/output error
> 
> With the new driver that has disappeared, so that has to be a step in the
> right direction :-)
> 
> 'messages' is full of kernel errors, some of which are probably related. 
> It's probably too big for pastebin, but I could post it somewhere and send
> the link to anyone wanting to read it.
> 
> Anne

Good luck with the new driver

Eli

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