Please post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and those in the /var/ log/gdm/ after a crash.
Am 12.01.2009 um 11:35 schrieb Isaac Perez: > Hi, > I moved the desktop across more than one screen, mouse, etc... > Is a CentOS 5.2, fully updated. > The X server: > Name : xorg-x11-server-Xorg > Arch : i386 > Version: 1.1.1 > Release: 48.41.el5_2.1 > Size : 8.2 M > Repo : installed > Summary: Xorg X server > > > The same software config is working in another desktops with the > same hardware, so don't think is a software issue. > > Thanks, > Isaac > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominik Riva [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 12 January 2009 10:13 > To: Isaac Perez > Cc: LOPSA Discuss List > Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] extrange desktop crashing > > > Am 12.01.2009 um 10:46 schrieb Isaac Perez: > >> Hi all, >> I am having problems with a desktop, which crashes when using X >> environment in Linux. >> >> We have 9 identical desktop systems. Dell Optiplex 745 with an ATI >> 1300 >> for dual screening. >> One of them suddenly (from one day to the next) start crashing when >> booting on X. We use an image management software to install saved >> images with different configurations, the same image which works >> perfectly in the other 8 desktops fails in that one. >> A clean Linux install fails if GUI is installed, but not if Text >> environment is loaded (init 3). >> >> Windows works fine, with dual desktop, etc... >> That's why I am asking here and not in Dell's support. As I expect >> they >> say that Linux is not supported and windows is working. >> >> Ram and disk's tests doesn't show any error. >> I swapped the graphic cards and still the same problem. >> >> Any ideas? >> > > What does the log file of X contain after the crash? Not only a > graphic card can crash X but the mouse, keyboard, monitor and even the > monitor cable can have a bad influence. Move the box to a working > workplace and connect the known good periphery, if it works there move > it back and swap one periphery item after an other to find the bad > apple. > > If you need more help please give the name and version of the OS and > X. > >> Thanks, >> Isaac > > Freundliche Grüsse > > Dominik Riva | Technik > update AG - Agentur fuer Kommunikation | Seefeldstrasse 5a | CH-8008 > Zurich > Tel. +41 44 266 50 10 | Direkt +41 44 266 50 19 | Fax +41 44 266 50 11 > mailto:[email protected] | Website http://www.update.ch > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ Freundliche Grüsse Dominik Riva | Technik update AG - Agentur fuer Kommunikation | Seefeldstrasse 5a | CH-8008 Zurich Tel. +41 44 266 50 10 | Direkt +41 44 266 50 19 | Fax +41 44 266 50 11 mailto:[email protected] | Website http://www.update.ch _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
