Spontaneous X restart [SOLVED]

suredeath · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:46 am Post subject: Spontaneous X restart [SOLVED]

Since a while my X server crashes without any warning about once or twice a day. /var/log/X.org.0.log does not show anything. Is there any other place where I might look for useful information on the crash, and/or do you have pointers on possible solutions?

mark_alec · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:49 am Post subject:

Please post /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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suredeath · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

Believe it or not, my system has no xorg.conf (also to my own big surprise).
If it helps determining more or less what I have in my machine wrt X I could post the xorg.conf from a fedora install on the same machine.
I have set up X from an ebuild source, followed by kde. I don' t use Gnome, if that makes any difference in casu.

My emerge --info:

Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache: 2.3
dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.scarlet-internet.nl/pub/gentoo "
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cd cdr cli crypt cups dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

mark_alec · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:43 am Post subject:

Follow the X Server Configuration HOWTO to see if creating an xorg.conf will help solve the problem.
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suredeath · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:55 am Post subject: Fixed

Problem fixed after BIOS CPU/RAm Voltage change, see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-498771.html for details