On 01/01/2013 04:42 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote:
I run F17 with regular updates.
I have many crashes of the X server:
- freezing when switching between user
- freezing when starting a session
Many times, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does not work, also Ctrl+Alt+F[1-9]
does not work either so that I cannot even start a terminal session to
see what happens. I find it difficult to justify my choice of linux
over windows in front of the familiy...
I would like to investigate but I do not know what to look at. Could
you help? Are there some logs that I can look at after the crash?
I used to run GDM + Gnome sessions. I changed to KDM + Kde but still
have issues.
Thanks for helping,
Regards,
Frédéric
Hey Frédéric,
What kind of machine are you running F17 on? What processor? How much
memory? What video card? Do you have it overclocked? Are you using
the default video driver that comes with F17 or did you install the
proprietary video driver issued by the video chip manufacturer?
There are a lot of things that can impact video system performance.
Do you have another machine networked to this machine? If you do you
can open a terminal session on this machine using ssh. You might find
some clues in dmesg
$ dmesg | tail
You want to set up and test ssh before time so that you will know that
it works when you need it. If your machine is hard crashing so that you
can't log on through ssh, if the keyboard locks up so that caps lock and
number lock don't work, then life gets more difficult when it comes time
to diagnose lockups.
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