Hi, For a few months now, I've been experiencing random xfs (the font server, not the filesystem ;-)) crashes on my laptop running FC Dev. As it was a system installed with FC back in January, which had run a binary distribution of XFree86 4.4RC (because the Radeon Mobility 9600 is not supported by 4.3), then upgraded to FC2, FC Dev and had plenty of custom fonts here and there, I didn't bother much to look for the problem. But I reinstalled FC3RC5 cleanly (complete format) Monday, and saw xfs crash on the same day, even before having installed a single 3rd party package or font! The symptoms are quite nasty : If it happens when xscreensaver is running and locks the display, then the login dialog simply never shows up and it gives the impression that the computer is frozen, since even Alt+Ctrl+F1 takes a long time before actually switching to the console! If it's during "normal" operation, then firefox often disappears, focus between windows doesn't work anymore (actually, it almost does, but keyboard/mouse input stops working sometimes, it can come back after "Alt+Tab"... weird), and new applications _all_ fail to start. Seth, could this be what you're seeing? Computer is still reachable by the network, though, so probably not. Even restarting xfs doesn't cure the running X... X needs to be completely restarted before things start working normally again. Right now, I'm running with "ulimit -c unlimited; xfs -nodaemon" on my first console... but xfs still hasn't crashed again, so I'm still waiting before I can expect being able to make a useful bug report. Still, I was wondering, does anyone else suffer from the symptoms above? I found zarroo bugs about xfs crashing in FC, so I'm a bit puzzled. If you think you have this problem, just "service xfs status" and you'll know for sure. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux kernel 2.6.9-1.649.radeon Load : 1.14 0.78 0.80
