Hello ... i already have had this a few times and i don't know why it is ... i run Debian Sid and a selfmade kernel 2.6.15.6 ... also had it with 2.6.15.4 other times ... and also see sometimes that kdm just exits on random moments ...
the last message from an oops was: eecac03a Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144418] PREEMPT Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144420] Modules linked in: via_rhine nls_iso8859_15 nls_cp437 tun snd_ymfpci snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_opl3_lib snd_timer snd_hwdep snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore rt2500 Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144437] CPU: 0 Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144438] EIP: 0060:[pg0+779952186/1068647424] Not tainted VLI Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144439] EFLAGS: 00213286 (2.6.15.6) Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144445] EIP is at 0xeecac03a Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144448] eax: f09e1de0 ebx: 00000300 ecx: c04248fa edx: f480a680 Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144452] esi: f480a680 edi: 00000003 ebp: 00000008 esp: e6c37eec Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost gconfd (richard-9576): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144455] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144458] Process Xorg (pid: 9302, threadinfo=e6c36000 task=e6c21ab0) Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144460] Stack: c030d386 f480a680 f09e1de0 e6c37f50 c0158f55 f480a680 e6c37f50 e6c37f50 Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144469] 00000000 00000031 f2cf6c00 f2cf6c20 f2cf6c40 f2cf6ba4 f2cf6bc4 f2cf6be4 Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144476] fffffc1a 00000000 00000000 fffffc1a 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000002d Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144483] Call Trace: Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144485] [sock_poll+19/23] sock_poll+0x13/0x17 Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144496] [do_select+400/717] do_select+0x190/0x2cd Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost gconfd (richard-9576): Exiting Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144507] [__pollwait+0/154] __pollwait+0x0/0x9a Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144513] [sys_select+557/816] sys_select+0x22d/0x330 Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144521] [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Mar 14 23:13:38 localhost kernel: [23067.144529] Code: 0a 01 00 00 00 28 20 6b 0a 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 8c 0b a5 08 11 00 00 00 36 31 4b b7 b8 48 4b b7 d1 00 d2 00 21 00 00 00 08 0a <a5> 08 d0 8e 71 0a 01 00 00 00 58 20 6b 0a 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 ----- and when KDM crashes it just says this in the /var/log/syslog file: Mar 14 21:35:48 localhost kdm[4825]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly You can see that was earlier on the evening. Can somebody please tell me why this could happen ... i am not used to this kind of unstableness in linux ... and it gets already pretty annoying ... Thanks