Re: Problem with shutting down the Xserver

2018-07-27 Thread Brian Buhrow
6pm, Paul Goyette wrote: } Subject: Re: Problem with shutting down the Xserver } On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Martin Husemann wrote: } } The problem machine is a desktop. It has a serial port. Unfortunately } the Windoze laptop does not, so nothing to which the other end of a } serial cable co

Re: Problem with shutting down the Xserver

2018-07-27 Thread Patrick Welche
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Martin Husemann wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 08:26:12AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > > > Has anyone else seen anything similar? Any suggestions on how to debug > > > this > > > further? > > > > For

Re: Problem with shutting down the Xserver

2018-07-27 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Martin Husemann wrote: For debugging: make sure you have the debug and xdebug sets installed. Make the system accessible via ssh. When the problem happens again: from another machine ssh in, pgrep for the X server, use gdb -p to attach to it and get a backtrace. "ssh in"

Re: Problem with shutting down the Xserver

2018-07-27 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Martin Husemann wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 08:26:12AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > > > Has anyone else seen anything similar? Any suggestions on how to debug > > > this > > > further? > > > > For

Re: Problem with shutting down the Xserver

2018-07-27 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Martin Husemann wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 08:26:12AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: Has anyone else seen anything similar? Any suggestions on how to debug this further? For debugging: make sure you have the debug and xdebug sets installed. Make the system accessible

Re: Problem with shutting down the Xserver

2018-07-27 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 08:26:12AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > Has anyone else seen anything similar? Any suggestions on how to debug this > further? For debugging: make sure you have the debug and xdebug sets installed. Make the system accessible via ssh. When the problem happens again: from

Problem with shutting down the Xserver

2018-07-26 Thread Paul Goyette
Sometime not so long ago, my old video card died and I had to get a new one. Ever since then, when I "log out" the Xserver locks up my system. Details: 1. This has been happening at least since the end of May, running a -current 6.99.18 kernel. I've just completed an update to