gnome-system-monitor kills X

[Andrew Farris]

Martin Sourada wrote:
> Dunno with what update exactly this started happening, but whenever I
> open gnome-system-monitor first some totally meaningless image appears
> on screen (it's just noise, nothing more) and then gdm starts again,
> which means that XServer gets restarted. Is this a known issue?
> 
> gnome-system-monitor-2.22.0-2.fc9.i386
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-18.20080401.fc9.i386
> xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-20.fc9.i386

You mean gnome-system-monitor is crashing X?  Try telinit 3, then startx as your 
user, and open gnome-system-monitor.. then get the output in the terminal to see 
whats happening.

You might need to do:
startx &> crash.txt

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