Chris Mayes wrote: > > Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence, > but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't > much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've encountered > a system freeze, the screen had been blanked, so I couldn't see the desktop. > For the most recent time, I was actually sitting at my desk working on stuff > when the system froze. Everything stopped. I couldn't kill the X server or > switch consoles. The thing was totally frozen. I've checked the logs, but I > didn't see anything special. In syslog, messages, user.log, etc., it looks > just like normal messages until crash time with boot messages following. Does > anyone have any suggestions for diagnosing and possibly fixing this problem? > I am running Debian Potato (Last full update was the middle of June) on Kernel > 2.2.6. TIA!
When I had a similar problem, it was fixed by turning off xdm and using startx to start my x sessions. I have no idea why. It seems to be a bug, but one that's so infrequent that it hasn't yet happened to somebody with the X or kernel experience to figure out why it happens and fix it. It's worth a try, anyway. HTH, Stuart.
