OK... I am starting to think this is NVIDIA's fault. I went back to nv
driver by renaming /etc/X11/xorg.conf and run startx. I tried to
reproduce the problem and no crash with gkrellm-hdplop plugin! I am
going to report this to NVIDIA via e-mail and the forum.

Is it me or is NVIDIA driver getting buggy in Linux like in Windows?


On 3/10/2008 10:42 PM PT, Ant typed:

> I would like to know if I am the only one with this issue or not. I
> recently discover how to reproduce my X session crash because of
> gkrellm-hdplop plugin in GKrellM v2.3.1.
>
> I basically loaded up GKrellM2 (doesn't matter if it uses defaults or
> customized) with gkrellm-hdplop plugin running only on ONE virtual
> desktop in KDE v3.5.8 or Gnome v2.14.3. Then, I switched to another
> virtual desktop that didn't have GKrellM on screen. Finally, I pressed
> ctrl-alt-F# (# is a number like 1) to go back to console/text mode.
>
> It resulted a X crash like:
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c89c1]
> 1: [0xffffe420]
> 2: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x81771e0]
> 3: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x814a8ba]
> 4: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x814b504]
> 5: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8154c1e]
> 6: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x1a1) [0x808eff1]
> 7: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x47e) [0x8076e2e]
> 8: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7dc5450]
> 9: /usr/bin/X11/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e9) [0x80761b1]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>
>
> If I disable this neat colorful plugin, then I won't get the crash. I am
> just wondering if I am the only one with this problem. I am using Debian
> (Kernel 2.6.22-K7) and keep it updated daily.
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