Re: Help! E/Gnome system crash

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight mindspring com>]

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:18:07 Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> These two files don't seem have be on my system. What do I need to do to
> get them created? 

I have no idea.  :)  On my system, they are just there.

> 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.

Have you tried running without the File Manager?  The File Manager is usually
the cause of these issues.  If running without the File Manager fixes it, get
the latest GMC and try it.  :)  How do I know?  Well, because mine used to 
do this ALL the time.:)  It might be a good idea to update Enlightenment at
the same time.  Right now I'm runnin' 4.5.29 of MC with no troubles.

> "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).
> > > >
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