On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:05:36PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, fred > smith<fredex at 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=37 > > 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. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever." ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090724/994ba63f/attachment-0005.sig>