[arch-general] X server reset when I press enter (!!!)

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 10:21:58 EDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Dario <carotinobg at yahoo.it> wrote:
> Hi! I'm experimenting a really bad behaviour from the X server, since
> yesterday night's update, which involved mainly KDE. When I press ENTER, in
> whichever applications or DM, the X server randomly reset just as I pressed
> ctrl-alt-backspace! For example, I had to start this email three times, and I
> have to resist to press the damn key. As I said, this happens in any
> applications (inkscape, NetBeans, Lyx, xterm, kmail, kwrite, anything), in KDE
> and FluxBox. I'm running NVIDIA proprietary drivers in a twinview
> configuration. I'm going to do some testing to isolate better the causes, but
> in the meantime, does someone of you has a suggestions? Thanks in advance and
> sorry for the bad formatting of this email: I can't press Enter...:( Ciao!
> Carotinho
> Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale!
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>

I would start by checking some logs.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
~/.xsession-errors
dmesg
any kde logs ?


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