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

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 10:23:36 EDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 17:21, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!
>>  http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com
>>
>
> I would start by checking some logs.
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> ~/.xsession-errors
> dmesg
> any kde logs ?

the relevant part of pacman.log could be useful to see the exact list
of updated packages.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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