Re: Help! E/Gnome system crash

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

These two files don't seem have be on my system. What do I need to do to
get them created? I am not really sure what is freezing up at this
point. What happens is that I can't click on anything. That is basically
the freeze. The mouse will move I just can't click.

Thanks,

Aaron

"Jesse D . Sightler" wrote:
> 
> Logs are in ~/.xsession-errors
> and ~/.gnomerc-errors
> 
> Sometimes sound related errors from the kernel can show up in /var/log/messages.
> 
> If you start the X server with startx > out.log 2>&1 you should be able to log all
> errors.
> 
> If the X server is freezing as you suggest it is highly advisable that you get the
> absolute latest E and gmc packages as these were generally the cause of X hangs.
> 
> Hope that helps.  :)
> 
> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:56:48 Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> > I should have done included this information with my first email, but
> > here it is a little late.
> >
> > What I am running:
> >
> > RedHat 5.2
> > Mach_64 Xserver
> > Gnome 1.0
> > Enlightenment 0.15
> > Kernel 2.2.2-ac5
> >
> > Some other things I am wondering about is where if any does the log
> > file/s for gnome sit? I would liket to be able to look at output of
> > what's going on when Gnome crashes (if its gnome). If there is no log
> > file for gnome is there some way to make one? When I am in
> > gnome/enlightenment and it freezes I can get out by hitting
> > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill the Xserver and when I do this and am back on
> > the commmand line there is a lot of error messages that I would like to
> > copy. How can I do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > "Jesse D . Sightler" wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:14:22 Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> > >
> > > > So with that done I typed startx and waited to see what happened. Well
> > > > to my surprise it worked. I was very happy to have it running. I went
> > > > right away to playing around with settings and changing the colors and
> > > > themes which I liked very much. I noticed two things that were happening
> > > > while doing this. Moving windows around was slow and when I went to the
> > > > dialogs option in the control-center the hard drive starting being
> > > > wildly accessed. This lasted for about 2-4 minutes and then stopped.
> > > > After that happened everything in E/Gnome became very slow and
> > > > impossible to deal with. I logged out at that point and restarted it.
> > > > Once restarted it behaved fine foe a while. So again I proceeded to
> > > > start playing with settings again. Only this time everything completely
> > > > locked up! I don't remember exactly what I was doing at the time since
> > > > it was late last night, but it killed the whole system.
> > >
> > > I've seen this several times with the latest Gnome CVS dist here.  So far,
> > > it looks like it doesn't happen here when running without "esd".  You might
> > > try doing a "killall esd" after logging into Gnome to see if that makes things
> > > more stable.
> > >
> > > It looks like a kernel bug of some sort, so maybe an upgrade to the latest kernel
> > > would be a good idea as well (I'm still at 2.2.1).
> > >
> > > ---------------
> > > Jesse D. Sightler
> > > http://www3.pair.com/jsight/
> > >
> > > "An honest answer can get you into a lot of trouble."
> > >          - Anonymous
> >
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> 
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