xOn Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:00:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:33:43PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I tried switching to VLC. I was resetting the hotkeys, clicked Save, and > > xorg restarted. > > how are you start X?
xdm > have you looked in .Xsession-errors? No relevant messages. > anything showing in the VT from which X was started (usually VT-1 if > using *dm). No. I'll manually start X from a vt when/if this happens again and use script(1) to record all messages. > .Xsession-errors gets re-written when you log in so, don't log back > in. instead switch to a VT and see what you can find. Oh. Didn't know that. > or start X with startx so you can keep it from re-starting (you'll > just drop back to the shell when X dies). Then you can examine the > onscreen messages and the logs. you might want to use tee with your > startx to capture stuff that might otherwise scroll off the screen > during your session. I'll give that a try, as mentioned above. > > I'm utterly unfamiliar with the internals of X. What would VLC have been > > doing when I clicked Save that would cause a xorg restart? > > who knows, but I've seen it happen a few times in sid with various > things. Usually there is some kind of trail in the logs. Thanks for the tip. I do appreciate it. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
