On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:05:36PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, fred smithfredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this bizarre, repeatable problem:
fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!! X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times.
Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?
Yes. Please see these (long) threads:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079046.html
and
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21070&forum=3...
Akemi _______________________________________________
One of those threads includes a message from Olaf Mueller in which he suggests adding this stuff (below) to Section "Device" in your xorg.conf:
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
I did add it, and have not been able to reproduce the crash since.
I'm not sure what that does to performance, if anything.