That's not a solution but for your jobs working in xterm, use screen (man 
sreen). Even if xterm and X crash, you jobs will still be working...

Isn't there an issue with some AMD processors and the linux kernel... 
Something about cache coherance...

Guillaume.

On Saturday 16 November 2002 10:37 am, you wrote:
>     Has anyone else had a problem with their machine dropping  back from
> gui to console after a period of uptime?  I have a computer that I run
> at init level 5 and use as my main home PC.  However, I also have it
> running several things out of cron, and performing server type functions
> like samba and cups.  It's an AMD XP 1400 with 512MB of RAM, so I don't
> feel I'm asking too much from the system.
>
>     Periodically, I'll come up to the keyboard and monitor and it will
> be at a console login prompt.  After a series of stopping and starting
> xfs and dm, and running "init 3" followed by "init 5" seems to get me
> back to a gui login.  Then I can log back in and continue on.  The
> problem is, I have things running out of xterm windows and I keep
> loosing my work when this happens.
>
>     I'm going to make sure I'm patched to the latest rpms, but I thought
> I'd post to this group to see if anyone else had seen this and/or knew
> what the problem was.
>
> Thanks,
> Cory

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