Xorg crashes...

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:26:40PM -0500, Ryan Daly wrote:
> On 01/06/2010 08:04 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> >> 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...
> > 
> > 
> > uhm. SIGTERM is the termination signal. Something's shutting down your
> > server.
> 
> Right, but it's nothing I'm doing.  That's the problem.  I'm not 
> initiating an exit, nor am I hitting ctrl-backspace (I don't think 
> that's enabled by default any longer anyway).
> 
> I'm looking for suggestions as to WHAT may be causing the SIGTERM.

either your session is terminating for some reason or another or you might
be getting an unresolved symbol error. that terminates the server as well.
try starting the server from a TTY instead of through gdm, once it exits you
can see if it complains about a symbol error.

Cheers,
  Peter