On   9 Sep, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace:
>>     Or running it under GDB would give more info.  If the
>> server segfaulted or decided to quit it should have printed out
>> more info there.  You were running "XFree86" directly right? not
>> startx?
> 
> Yes, I am running XFree86 directly (startx complains that the
> connection was rejected, in addition to the XFree86 errors. GDB just
> reports that the program was terminated by SIGKILL, without any additional
> information

This wouldn't be Linux's infamous OOM killer? That's a kernel function
which kills (or rather, tries to) the one process hugging most memory
when memory gets real, real tight.

Cheers

Michel

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