Re: Multi-seat X crashes

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- Erik Walthinsen <om...@vc...> wrote:

> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > When you say that it crashes with no signs of
> > anything, I presume you mean that everything
> freezes
> > and you cannot move anything?
> > That is a kernel panic that most likely shows up
> on
> > the AGP vc console, the one you boot with.
> > 
> > Has that been active, i.e. visible during a crash?
> Not until now, I just ran a test with the 2nd and
> 3rd heads running X
> and the first head (all PCI) sitting at a text VT. 
> Problem is, the text
> VT got throroughly hozed once the X servers started
> up, incapable of
> scrolling when e.g. trying to log in, and getting
> interleaved in weird
> patterns when trying to switch VTs.  I may try
> putting a Matrox G400 AGP
> card in to see if I can avoid this kind of
> corruption by having a
> totally different engine on the 1st head.
> 
> However, there is nothing on the console now that
> the machine has
> crashed.  AFAIK there were no events such as DPMS
> wakeup etc to trigger
> the crash.
> 
> Now I'm going to see if a) I have or have to go buy
> a null modem cable,
> and b) whether kgdb can give me anything useful.
> 

The reason for the textconsole is if the crash is a
kernel panic then that is where the last message will
show up.

I am still not clear on what exactly dies. Is anything
still running?

When the crash occurs, everything is dead?

H







		
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