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Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted..

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On Wednesday 18 March 2015 14:38, The Natural Philosopher conveyed the 
following to comp.os.linux.misc...

> Mmm. Befoer I start I am not expecxting a solution to te questin, but
> noire general hints as to te class of probolem this might be.

Your spiel choker also appears to be b0rken. <grin>

> Simply put after aroudn 7 hours of flawless operation a Mint 17.1 Mate
> computer lost the GUI completely, dropped back briefly to a text login
> and then presented me with a logon screen.
> 
> I assume the X server had crashed and restarted.
> 
> First of all, is that a valid and comprehensive assumption?

In my experience, yes, that would be a correct analysis, provided that 
you do of course boot up to a graphical login screen in the first place.  
It would not be logical for this to happen if you start X manually from 
the command line in a character mode login console.

> Secondly any clues as to why?

That's a tricky one.  Most of X11 ─ and specifically, the desktop 
environment ─ runs quite monolithically, and it all communicates with 
your graphics adapter through the video driver.  It is possible for an 
application ─ and quite probably so with things like Adobe's Flash 
Player plugin ─ to crash and bring down the whole desktop with it.

When the standard runlevel is 5 ─ i.e. the runlevel in which the machine 
boots up to a graphical login screen ─ is active, this will then trigger 
an automatic restart of the X server (and by consequence, the desktop 
environment running on top of it).

> It was synchronous with trying to access a particular web page in
> Firefox, but that is all.

My money would be on the Flash Player plugin.


> After relogging in the web page was just fine.

It may have been a glitch ─ an unfortunate combination of circumstances, 
caused by an innocuous bug somewhere, which only gets triggered when 
certain conditions are all met. 

-- 
= Aragorn =

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GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-18 13:38 +0000
  Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-03-18 07:19 -0700
    Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-03-18 17:01 +0000
  Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-18 17:24 +0100
    Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> - 2015-03-18 16:34 -0400
      Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-03-18 16:52 -0400
      Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-18 22:27 +0100
        Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-19 09:45 +0000
          Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-19 18:59 +0100
            Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-19 18:43 +0000
          Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-03-20 08:19 +1100
  Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-03-18 18:05 +0000
    Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-18 18:51 +0000
      Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-03-18 20:41 +0000

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