Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161085AbWASLKF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:10:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161083AbWASLKF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:10:05 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.90]:12037 "EHLO anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161085AbWASLKE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:10:04 -0500 Message-ID: <43CF7385.9020201@superbug.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:09:57 +0000 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: Ram Gupta , Jan Engelhardt , linux mailing-list Subject: Re: X killed References: <43CA883B.2020504@superbug.demon.co.uk> <20060115192711.GO7142@w.ods.org> <43CCE5C8.7030605@superbug.demon.co.uk> <43CD599B.8050002@superbug.demon.co.uk> <728201270601171332v6c95df17u167d15212dde66c4@mail.gmail.com> <20060117214149.GA30467@w.ods.org> In-Reply-To: <20060117214149.GA30467@w.ods.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1679 Lines: 54 Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:32:11PM -0600, Ram Gupta wrote: > >>On 1/17/06, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> >>>Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> >>>>>My point is that there is no way to tell what kills me. No messages in >>>>>syslog...nothing. Surely the OOM killer would send a message to ksyslog, or at >>>>>least dmesg? >> >>You may try using strace . It may throw some light on the cause of the problem. > > > I would particularly suggest using 'strace -tt' both on X and on the > python process. It will make it easier to analyse the causes later. You > might even encounter a bug in the python application causing an explicit > kill of a miscalculated pid (although unlikely, but who knows ?). > > >>Regards >>Ram gupta > > > Regards, > Willy > I have managed to narrow down the problem. strace did not help at all. The problem was the Load "freetype" line in xorg.conf. With it commented out, python wsjt.py runs fine. That would explain why strace did not help at all. So, this is not a kernel problem now, it is an Xorg problem. Section "Module" # Load "glx" Load "record" Load "extmod" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "xtrap" # Load "freetype" ### freetype crashes X in wsjt.py Load "type1" Load "speedo" EndSection I will have to ask the Xorg people how to run gdb on the freetype module. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/