Re: X Server & Gnome crashes and locks up whole Server.

[Cristian Molina <megacorreo ciudad com ar>]

On vie, 10 mar 2000, Anthony L. Sollars wrote:

when my dear X is locking up my machine, i kill it with sys-request keys in
kernel 2.2  (alt+sysRq+k  : kill all programs in the current tty) and gdm
restart, but this f.. the other consoles :(
You have to compile the kernel with sys-request option enable and maybe
(at least in RH6.1) edit the /etc/sysconfig/init file (MAGIC_SYSRQ=yes)

> Dear all,
> 
>         Has anyone ever heard of X-Windows locking up an entire server,
> to the
> point of having to hit the reset button. I will post a snippet of my
> x-server startup log, which seems for the most part to be fairly normal.
> The X-server actually starts up just fine, but after a few minutes of
> activity it just freezes.  I am running this system on an Intel Platform
> with RH6.0 with all the updates provided by redhat, plus I've updated X
> and Gnome, as far as
> Redhat as provided in their errata section. I have a core file that X
> has placed in my home directory, and I have debugged to trace the source
> of the lockup. I will place the debug info below:
> 
> "file core" ouput:
> core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'gmc' (signal 6), Intel 80386, version
> 1
> 
> OUPUT:
> gdb /usr/bin/gmc core
> 
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...(no debugging symbols
> found)...
> Core was generated by `gmc --sm-config-prefix /gmc-QpcC1G/
> --sm-client-id 11c6ec430a000095264972700000'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnorba.so.27...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming.so.0...(no debugging
> symbols found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libORBit.so.0...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libIIOP.so.0...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libORBitutil.so.0...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libart_lgpl.so.2...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.1...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0...(no debugging
> symbols found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnomesupport.so.0...(no debugging
> symbols found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libdb.so.2...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libext2fs.so.2...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libcom_err.so.2...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2...done.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nis.so.2...done.
> #0  0x40441111 in __kill ()
> 
> #0  0x40441111 in __kill ()
> #1  0x40440d66 in raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27
> #2  0x40442447 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88
> #3  0x403fb2d3 in g_logv ()
> #4  0x403fb396 in g_log ()
> #5  0x4001ea3f in real_goad_server_activate ()
> #6  0x4001e6db in goad_server_activate_with_id ()
> #7  0x8068717 in corba_init_server ()
> #8  0x8067af1 in init_sigchld ()
> #9  0x8067b67 in init_sigchld ()
> #10 0x8067f8e in main ()
> #11 0x4043acb3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8067ebc <main>, argc=5,
> argv=0xbffffca4, 
>     init=0x80621cc <_init>, fini=0x80f6bbc <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000a350
> <_dl_fini>, 
>     stack_end=0xbffffc9c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:78
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> _____________________________________________________________
>  
>  Anthony L. Sollars
>  Technology Coordinator/Computer Teacher
>  Star of the Sea School
>  1411 Grand Avenue Astoria, Or 97103
>  (503) 325-3771
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> 
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