Re: non core dump crashes

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 19:25, Egbert Eich wrote:

>  > Since I have moved to Red Hat 7.3 I am having X crashes upon quitting
>  > apps. Stock Red Hat and Gnome. Updated through Up2Date.
>
> I will check the crash issue on Monday. Maybe you can beat me on
> it and run X in gdb. You need a module aware version of gdb, though.
> 
> I don't know what to say about vmware. I don't have the disk
> space to install a vmware running Linux on my laptop. And I cannot
> do Windows at all.

OK I think that I have pierced the mystery:

I believe that for some reason VMware may be buffering Ctrl-Alt-Del and
passing it to X when it quits. In fact X isn't crashing but just
quitting.

This looks like a VMware keyboard buffer issue.

Cheers

Tony Grant

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