me> Two days out of three this week, arriving at work I've logged in
me> and typed `startx'. The display goes black and stays black.
me> Can't change consoles, can't SysRq anything, can't login over the
me> network, but can ping. First time was with 2.2.17pre1, afterwhich
me> I switched to 2.2.17pre9 which had the same problem this morning.
me> Nothing unusual in the logs. I haven't had a system crash prior
me> to this for over a year. After the reboot, both times startx
me> worked fine.
me> The box is a dual Pentium-III 500 ASUS P2B-DS motherboard with
me> 128meg of RAM. It's got the onboard SCSI and a second BusLogic
me> 948 SCSI card, and an SMC EtherPower network card. I am going to
me> try setting up the serial console to see if I can see what is
me> happening.
A couple more things I left out. This is a Debian unstable box
running Xfree 3.3.6-?. After the crash today I resync'd with Debian.
The last time was maybe three or four weeks ago.
--
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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