MORE on system restarts (unknown cause) S/B X restarts

[Jay Ridgley]

All,

Thanks, for the response to my first post.

My bad... not reboots, but ALL the windows I have open and the desktop 
session are CLOSED. The display is at the initial login prompt (that was 
what was throwing me a curve). I have several tasks that i keep up 24/7 
including Firefox and Thunderbird as well as a couple that are local to 
my system and a couple that are monitoring other systems on my intranet. 
It is a royal pain to have to get them all up and running each time.

I have found something else here apparently the X server is going down, 
indicating a problem with APM or at least a problem with the X server.

The /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old reports --

<snip>
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
AUDIT: Fri Mar  3 16:57:54 2006: 14939 X: client 5 rejected from local host

   *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
   *** be the reason for the server aborting.

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
         at http://wiki.X.Org
 for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional 
information.

<snip>

The Xorg.0.log file contains a normal start up sequence and ends where 
the above messages begin in Xorg.0.log.old. It contains the same info 
except for the following lines as shown by diff --

diff Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log.old
15c15
< (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 11 23:16:30 2006
---
 > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Feb 28 14:59:10 2006
666a667,684
(log info above follows)


Cheers,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com