X-server crash?

yotestalker linuxnutster at videotron.ca
Sun Dec 16 14:24:46 UTC 2012


On 12/16/2012 03:14 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:37:57 -0500 yotestalker
> <linuxnutster at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> Recently, whenever I launched a video with totem, my screen would go
>> black and I'd end up back at the FC17 login screen. I was using the
>> akmod-nvidia and kmod-nvidia drivers. I switched over to VLC as my
>> default video player and the problem seemed to be solved; however,
>> It's now doing the same thing whenever I try to launch google chrome.
>> The screen goes black and I end up back at the login screen. It does
>> it in both KDE and XFCE. Has anybody else seen this?
>
> All troubleshooting related to X crashes starts with reading the
> relevant logs, in order to see what happened.
>
> In the /var/log directory there should be two log files, Xorg.0.log and
> Xorg.0.log.old --- one of these files (probably the .old) contains the
> logs of the crashed X session. My suggestion is that you recreate the
> crash, and then post both files so that we can compare and see what went
> wrong.
>
> Even better (given that those files are somewhat large), put them on
> pastebin or similar, and send us a link.
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>

Thanks Marko,

Here's the link to Xorg.0.log.old:

http://pastebin.com/CyNaDrNX

and the link to Xorg.0:

http://pastebin.com/s59p3fYY

I forgot all about pastebin. :-)




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