From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 16:59:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85EDA16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-f143.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.247.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D7543D46 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from missive@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:27:34 -0700 Received: from 208.186.54.187 by by2fd.bay2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:27:34 GMT X-Originating-IP: [208.186.54.187] X-Originating-Email: [missive@hotmail.com] X-Sender: missive@hotmail.com From: "Lee Harr" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:27:34 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Apr 2004 22:27:34.0634 (UTC) FILETIME=[58AD0CA0:01C42594] Subject: Re: KDE 3.2/Xwindows dying strangely without warning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:59:44 -0000 >Ok, I can't contribute this to anything I've ever encountered or >something that I'm doing, but it seems that after about 7-10 days KDE >just dies on me. No crash, no errors, no "I'm gonna shut down". >Nothing. I will be working along and then suddenly it's just not there. >Even the logs show nothing. No core dumps, no memory errors, not even >an Xwindows shutting down message. I had this happen to me today. I clicked on a link in konq, the drive started spinning and everything else locked up. A few minutes later X died and I was back at the kdm screen. I found this in /var/log/messages ... Apr 18 13:12:21 homer /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Apr 18 13:12:22 homer /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Apr 18 13:12:22 homer /kernel: pid 66243 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space Apr 18 13:12:33 homer kdm[209]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly I guess it's a good thing that X gets killed instead of having to reboot, but... aagh! There must have been some other process causing the problem. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus