Random X Window Restarts

[epate]

I've got two rawhide systems (a desktop and a laptop) that have begun to exhibit the same problem - random X Window restarts. I apologize for not being able to offer many details but it seems to be related to keyboard input such as "ctrl-k". It almost always occurs while I'm editing in emacs and hitting a sequence of "control" keys (for example, ctrl-a, ctrl-k). It happens so quickly that it's hard to know exactly what actually caused the restart. And it's obviously not reproducible.

Has anybody noticed anything similar?

Thanks,
Emmett "Buddy" Pate

[typerlc]

Up until the updates yesterday, I frequently had similar problems.

But I can happily say that yesterday's updates have mostly resolved this.

Welcome to the world of rawhide. :)

[epate]

Up until the updates yesterday, I frequently had similar problems.

But I can happily say that yesterday's updates have mostly resolved this.

Welcome to the world of rawhide. :)

Unfortunately, as of today (7/27), I'm still having these restarts. I have to that after several years of using various rawhide releases, this has to be the most annoying bug that I've had. Oh well, I'm sure it will get resolved eventually.

If anybody has any idea how I can help trace down the source of the bug, I'm more than happy to try.

Regards,
Emmett "Buddy" Pate

[alphonsebrown]

It looks like this is related to latest kernel at least for me now X is stable but running F11 kernel on Rawhide

[typerlc]

I hate to report it, but it's still happening for me too.

I don't think my problem is kernel related (though it could be). It seems to be bugs in the X server corrupting the heap. I reported it a week or 2 ago, but there has been no action on it so far.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523905

It must be just about time to start working on stability over features.

[hephasteus]

Have you tried fiddling with the keyboard set up?
preferences->hardware->keyboard

[typerlc]

hephasteus: not related to keyboard for me, and perhaps not for the original poster

epate: if you want to try and get more concrete info on what's happening, you can try to follow these instructions: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging