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:
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