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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: "frogger3099" <frogger3099@home.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Computer Crashing after X is open
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:56:13 -0500
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On Thursday 15 November 2001 00:23, frogger3099 wrote:
> Hi, freebsd is great, i like it a lot.  The only thing is I can't figure
> out why it crashes after about 10-20 minutes of being idle in X.  If i
> leave my computer alone in a console it won't crash.  But after I leave it
> alone in X for 10 - 20 minutes then exit out of X the kernel has crashed. 
> I asked the network admin at my work but he couldn't figure it out either
> so I was hoping that you might be able to.  Thank You

Well, . . . .

- X is still ok, but after you exit it, the computer crashes, or
- After 20 idle minutes it crashes?

If the latter, it's almost certainly that your window manager or other 
process is trying to bring up a screen saver and that's killing things.

But we'll need a lot more data to be able to help:

- FreeBSD version?
- X version?
- Window manager?
- xlock set up?
- When it crashes, what exactly happens?
- How do you know the kernel is crashing?  What messages appear on your 
screen (kernel "panic" message?  Something else?)



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