Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:01:48 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Machine Dead on 2.1.131 |
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Michael K Vance wrote:
> I'm starting to reconsider the causes of my previously reported > crash. I've started to run xfstt to serve TrueType fonts under X, > and have noticed it's pegged the CPU meter a few times now. I wonder > if it's breaking X in bad ways, especially since I manually killed > the runaway process...
This is strange, a _font_ server killing the X and subsequently the machine. I suspect that X is at fault since that's the only part of the system (apart from the kernel) that has direct hardware access. You're not using XFree 3.3.3 are you?
cheers,
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