Rock wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:21:33 +0000, Rock wrote: > > >> Is there a Desktop crash log somewhere? > > > Given that the advice was that X was crashing due to Nvidia > driver mismatch problems after my "yum update", I took a look > at the ~/.xsession-errors log file before and after the crash. > > And, you seem to be correct: The xsession is crashing when > using Firefox (but not Chrome): > > Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on display ':0'. > nautilus: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. > polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. > nm-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. > rhythmbox: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. > gpk-update-icon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. > pan: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. > gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. > gdu-notification-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. > gnome-terminal: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. > [14555:14555:0415/175602:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_x11.cc(62)] X IO error received (X server probably went away) Those messages are a result of Xorg crashing - i.e. various X11 apps complaining that Xorg has gone away ... Any Xorg crash details will be in /var/log/Xorg.?.log - however, if Xorg has restarted since the crash, then the error should be in /var/log/Xorg.?.log.old The error may also be in one of the log files in /var/log/gdm/ James Pearson _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos