Kyle <kyle_at_actarg.com> writes:
> I have several servers all showing the same problem. I have redhat 8.0
> and fvwm 2.4.14.
>
> On the console (:0.0) after running a session for about 2 weeks, I lose
> the ability to launch new programs from fvwm. If I open a shell window
> and try to launch any program (xcalc, for example), I get an error:
>
> Error: Can't open display: :0
...
> If I do:
>
> export DISPLAY=hostname:0.0
>
> then I can launch programs from the shell window (via tcp), but if I
> again do:
>
> export DISPLAY=:0
>
> It still fails. So its like unix access to the server doesn't work, but
> tcp access still does.
>
> If I try to restart fvwm, the session crashes and I have to log back in
> again. Then the session works for a number of days again and then
> mysteriously fails again.
...
> I don't know if this is an fvwm or an X problem but I wanted to see if
> anyone else had seen it or knows what it is. And I don't think I've
> ever seen it on a stock (gnome) redhat box.
I read everything that comes into the fvwm mailing list and
I can't remember a problem report like this.
I'd suspect some kind of memory leak in the X server.
Maybe you should run:
ipcs -a
every once in a while for shared memory. And run top
or ps for conventional memory.
--
Dan Espen E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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Received on Mon Dec 30 2002 - 16:42:05 GMT