startx kills machine with 2.2.17pre1 and pre9 ... sometimes

Russell Senior (seniorr@aracnet.com)
28 Jun 2000 15:47:20 -0700

Two days out of three this week, arriving at work I've logged in and
typed `startx'. The display goes black and stays black. Can't change
consoles, can't SysRq anything, can't login over the network, but can
ping. First time was with 2.2.17pre1, afterwhich I switched to
2.2.17pre9 which had the same problem this morning. Nothing unusual
in the logs. I haven't had a system crash prior to this for over a
year. After the reboot, both times startx worked fine.

The box is a dual Pentium-III 500 ASUS P2B-DS motherboard with 128meg
of RAM. It's got the onboard SCSI and a second BusLogic 948 SCSI
card, and an SMC EtherPower network card. I am going to try setting
up the serial console to see if I can see what is happening.

-- 
Russell Senior         ``The two chiefs turned to each other.        
seniorr@aracnet.com      Bellison uncorked a flood of horrible       
                         profanity, which, translated meant, `This is
                         extremely unusual.' ''                      


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