Hello all, I'm troubleshooting some fairly high end technical machines used in marine surveys. Trying to isolate the cause has been a major headache, and I still don't have it. I've captured some relevant logs ( had to write a shell wrapper to get the .xsession-errors log ) and I hope some of you may lend me some eyeballs.
We have several of these rigs, they all crash pretty regularly while on the survey simulators ( usually within a day or two ). The 'crash' is defined as X restarting back to the kdm login. The machines are PACKED with PCI cards, one dual nic, on board nic, dual channel scsi, 2x Digiboard serial boards (binary driver...), 1 Bantum time control card ( binary driver... again ), dual PIII, Creative PCI 128, dual head Matrox G450 ( XF's driver with Xinerama ). We moved to XF42 from RH's XF403 because of improved support for the G450. We chose the G450 because it seems to be the all around highest recommended dual head video card for linux. Anyone know any differently, please speak up. A day of down time during marine survey usually costs more than my yearly salary. One note: the clocks on these machines are tweaked VERY often, as they are constantly kept in sync with a dedicated LAN connected atomic clock. The attachments are copies of XFree86.log.0, $HOME/.xsession-errors, and the last 1000 lines of /var/log/messages. -Dan Garthwaite
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