On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:29:34PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > This was going to be a question for help about why, 3 times in the > last 4 days, I've left this system (running lxdm, logged in to xfce) > and come back to the login screen. I've proved that it isn't > happening every time xscreensaver cuts in, ConsoleKit is running, > but I have avoided PAM. > > But when I was writing a mail about that, I looked at Xorg.log.old > and saw there had been a segfault in /usr/libexec/Xorg.bin, possibly > in the intel_drv module. :-( > > This is with xf86-video-intel-2.99.914 and the options we used to > use (something about drm3 was changed for the current driver). > > Until now I haven't used a desktop environment, nor a desktop > manager, but I wanted to see if this would look like a viable thing > to run on my netbook which is still struggling with ubuntu. I've > certainly seen occasional Xorg segfaults in the past few months, > more on ati than intel, and I thought they were all on -rc kernels, > but not sure. Whatever, they seemed to be infrequent. > > So - I suppose I will have to build the newer intel driver and see > if that helps. Meanwhile, this is a placeholder in case anybody > else is seeing Xorg segfaults in -rc6 with the 3.16.2 kernel. > On my ATI (Aruba) box Xorg seems fine, I haven't built 7.6 on my > other ATI at the moment (still building libreoffice on the slow > one). > At the risk of summoning "the wee folk", I have not had any more problems since I moved to 2.99.916 and I have used this machine a lot during hte last couple of days.
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