http:\/\/twitter.com\/rodneygedda\/status\/8616389858<\/a><\/p>\nNo warning, nothing. Badda bing, badda bang… blank screen, some hard disk seeking then KDM restarts. Good thing I save my work regularly and both Konqueror and Firefox have session restoration!<\/p>\n
I haven’t had a chance to do any debugging yet, but I invariably will as this type of failure is unacceptable if Linux is going to have a snowflake’s chance in hell of providing a credible alternative on the desktop.<\/p>\n
Mind you, my notebook does get hammered every day in the form of multiple suspend to rams, compositing (Kwin, not Compiz) and scores of applications running at the same time.<\/p>\n
So when I say my desktop crashed I’m really saying “my desktop has been going for two weeks straight (no restarts, just suspensions) and decided to have a hiccup”. No idea what my record it but could well be over a month before a kernel update demanded a reboot.<\/p>\n
Any debugging tips will be greatly appreciated (Kubuntu Karmic).<\/p>\n
Without pointing the finger at X.Org, does it add complexity the modern Linux desktop could do without? Not that it’s unstable at all (in fact, X has always been a model of stability and robustness when configured correctly), but does it let Linux distributions down in an area where Windows and Mac OS X shine?<\/p>\n
So far the logs haven’t told me much. Let me wait until it really become s problem before I start digging furiously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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