> Therefore I infer that the chooser process which manages the XDMCP > hosts menu has died and the xdm has launch another chooser, since I > also see a living chooser process listed by xdm:
It is possible that the kernel is at fault. Check dmesg and see if the chooser generated any strange signals (9 or 11 being the most notable) next time that happens. I've noticed that under a high load sparc-linux often does not satisfy virtual memory requests fast enough and the current process dies with a sig 9 or 11. Perhaps this is happening once in a while to one of xdm's subprocesses, or the chooser itself, creating some zombie processes and eating up your IPC's resources. Of course, this is just a guess. There are a lot of problems with sparc-linux, both in the kernel and the X servers, which no one seems very interested in fixing. -- Mike "No .sig for you" Shuey
