Thanks for the reply Will! It started to happen with mozilla also, so I think I'm going to upgrade to fedora core 2 tonight or tomorrow (I've been thinking about it anyway). It makes perfect sense that it would be some corruption in X, rather than a browser.
Michael Will Hill wrote: >I've had Konqueror do that to me a few times under KDE 3.2, Debian Unstable >with Macromedia Flash (AKA Mepis with unstable updates). It only happened >while running the browser and might have had something to do with ssh. >Something would barf X, I assume, and it would restart, which kills your X >session. Virtual terminals, remote logins, networking, server programs, the >kernel itself and many other processes were unaffected. The problem has gone >away with KDE 3.3 and had been greatly reduced under 3.2 before. > >Something killed my wife's X session just three days ago. Her machine is >running Sarge. She could not remember the last time she had a crash like >that and was very surprised. > >I was a little surprised myself. It had only been up for 18 days. Neither of >us ever turns our machines off or log out. It's usually a power outage that >does that for us. That happens once every 100 days on average. 18 days is >very early into the cycle. > >On Sunday 10 October 2004 10:41 am, michael dolan wrote: > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >
