Debian Lenny Xorg X-Server woes (was: Re: debian lenny sudden restart)

[Omer Zak]

Shimon:
1. You may be able to save the long calculation by running it from one
of the consoles instead of the X-Server.
2. Check your keyboard configuration.

Any Debian Lenny Xorg X-Window expert in Linux-IL:
1. Where to set options so that the Xorg.0.log will be more verbose?
(according to man Xorg, the -logverbose option sets the verbosity level)
2. Does the X-Server log runtime information (rather than init-time
only) in the same logfile or in another logfile?
If in another logfile - where?

                                                 --- Omer


On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 09:58 +0300, Shimon Panfil wrote:
> Quoting Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il>:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 18:21 +0300, Shimon Panfil wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >> today my main box running debian lenny made sudden restart. How can I
> >> investigate what was the reason? What log should I inspect? I use UPS
> >> so the reason might be more interesting that simple power failure.
> >
> > I have a problem, which may be related.
> >
> > Usually it is not restart, but the keyboard and mouse freeze in X-Window
> > and I have to hit the Big Red Button.
> > More rarely, the X-Window subsystem spontaneously restarts.
> --skipped--
> 
> It seems, you are right the actual problem is X-server crush (still do  
> not understand why).
>   Xlog.0 shows:
> .......
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> .....
> 
> Don't know what does it mean.
> 
> It was first (and for sure last) time I used display manager
> so X-server crush has lead to system restart (and long calculation was lost).