Xorg crashes...

[Ryan Daly]

On 01/06/2010 01:31 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>>> fglrx is the closed-source ATI driver
>>>
>>
>> OK.  That rules that out then...
>>
>> The backtrace is pretty consistent with the following few lines:
>>
>> Program received signal SIGTERM, Terminated.
>> 0x00007f146bab8110 in __close_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
>> (gdb) backtrace r full
>> #0  0x00007f146bab8110 in __close_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
>> No symbol table info available.
>> #1  0x00007f1466f61516 in ?? () from
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so
>> No symbol table info available.
>> #2  0x0000000000447723 in DisableDevice (dev=0x18a33a0) at
>> ../../dix/devices.c:407
>>
>> Are those lines pointing to a device or to the card possibly?
>>
>> I'm running the same version of Ubuntu on three different machines, and
>> I'm only experiencing the Xorg restarts on one system.  I'm at a loss...
>>
> 
> yeah.. fglrx is specific to
> ati chipsets(but could be wrong).
> 
> In your case If you have nvidia
> you probably should be using
> nv, nouveau, or the proprietary module.
> 
> if you can does changing your xorg.conf
> to use vesa/vga have the xserver start properly?

Well, my xorg.conf is set up to use the nVidia proprietary module:

Section "Device"
     Identifier     "Device0"
     Driver         "nvidia"
     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
     BoardName      "Quadro FX 570"
EndSection

The X server will start properly and it allows me to log in.  Sometimes 
my session will last hours, other times it will restart 3 or 4 times in 
15 minutes.  I have left it logged in without it restarting on its own, 
so it definitely appears to be triggered by something.  I can say this, 
I'm typing 100% of the time it ups and restarts on me.

I have left the proprietary driver out and still received a restart, too.

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