one thing that used to happen to me when i was using framebuffer consoles + nvidia X is that it would lock up, and since i lived in the dorm i could just go to my roommates computer and login to either reboot or kill & restart X. after those episodes, unfortunately, my text consoles would be unusable. but logging in from another computer, if possible, is something that you could try.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 21:57:56 +0200, Olaf Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >>When using GTK+-2.0 (in form of glade-2 and Gnome 2) my system (SuSE >>7.3, standart kernel, K6/2 500 on Gigabyte G5AX, G-Force 2 MX) my X >>freezes after some minutes of working with it. The only way of >>regaining access to the system is a complete reboot. >> >> > >First 3 guesses: > >1) Your program has a memory leak that's running you out of swap space, >and things get ugly at a bad time. Test this by having an xterm open and >continually running 'ps aux' and watch for the 'VSZ' and 'RSS' columns, >see if anything is running. You might want to watch /proc/swaps as well, >and see if you're running low as your program runs. I'm not sure if >the "SuSE 7.3 standard kernel" has a reasonable virtual memory system >(and I can't remember which 2.4.N kernel included an actually functional >version of mm/oom_kill.c), so it's quite possible you have a system that >locks up hard on out-of-memory. > >2) Some bug in your program is tickling something in your XFree (either >tripping over an actual bug, or just giving it indigestion by creating >zillions of widgets or asking for a 10,000 pixel high font from xfs, or >whatever). > >3) Old outdated NVidia drivers? Current off the nVidia site is 2960 >or possibly even later). > >The output of 'uname -a', and knowing what release of XFree you're using, and >knowing whether things are so wedged that control-alt-Fn allows you to switch >consoles or not, and whether other consoles are hung/unresponsive as well, >would help in narrowing things down. > > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
