server crash on 4.0.1

[Anthony Ewell]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
>>     I logged into one of my Red Hat 9.0 servers and proceeded to
>> start XFce 4.0.1.  The server stayed in text mode and displayed a lot
>> of strange characters on the screen.  The server was totally hosed.
>> So I upgraded to 4.0.3-1. 
>
>
> for starters, i find it hard to believe that a desktop environment 
> itself could bring down an entire machine.  the fact that you didn't 
> even leave text mode, however, seems to indicate to me that it's a 
> problem with the X server, and has nothing to do with xfce.
>
> btw, by "totally hosed" do you mean "i had to reboot it," or "i had to 
> rebuild the entire system"?  i usually tend to use "hosed" to mean the 
> latter, so that's why i'm a bit confused...  at any rate, if an X 
> client causes the X server to crash, it's by definition a bug in the X 
> server, as the X client-server model is designed in such a way that 
> clients can't crash (reasonably bug-free and well-designed) X 
> servers.  i would blame the video driver; it's a common culprit.
>
"totally hosed":  I had to push the power button in, hold it in, and 
count to five real slow.  When L:inux came back
up, all was well again.  Sorry: I should have been more specific. 

The video driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run

--Tony


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