[ale] annoying, unknown X crash - only when laptop lid is closed.

[Michael B. Trausch]

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Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 01:47 pm, Jay Loden saith:
> 
>>Has anyone had a similar problem and have any ideas where I can look? I
>>can't seem to track down why this is happening only when the lid is shut,
>>and it's really annoying having all my applications crash.
>>
> 
> I can only help by reporting that this has happened about 4 times with me. My 
> notebook, a Dell Latitude D800, runs all the time. On 3 or 4 occassions, I 
> get up and in the morning and when I open up my laptop, the X server has 
> crashed. There are no errors in the messages file. This is only a nominal 
> issue since it rarely happens, but when it does, it is very annoying as I 
> have about 15 shells open at any given time editing C source code. Hope 
> someone has some insight as to why this happens. By the way, I'm running 
> RedHat WS 3.
> 

Is ACPI enabled on the stated laptop kernels, and if so, does the system
go to "sleep" when the lid is shut?  Perhaps check for other log
messages present in /var/log/*, and see if you can find anything unusual
there.  That's about the only insight I could offer into that...

In the case of the OP, it looks like something in the X server did
something bad with memory.  I might see if you can tolerate running X
using strace and see if you close the lid and open it up later, and it
crashes, what might be contained in there as something that might have
failed.  (Note, this may make the window system unbearably slow to
start, depending on the type and speed of your processor.)

	- Mike
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