On Tue 23 Jul 2019 at 07:48:59 -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > The X server usually crashes with "SIGSEGV" (logged in Xorg.0.log.old), > but doesn't leave a core dump. One time it got "SIGALARM" and left a > core dump. What I did to catch it, was to ssh into the machine from another one, and then run gdb -p <pid of X>, and (since it stops X) continue it. You obviously can't do this from an xterm on the same X server but it can probably work as well from a text console (well, if the switching to the console works, I'm not 100% sure). -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- "What good is a Ring of Power \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- if you're unable...to Speak." - Agent Elrond
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