From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: When running ntpdate server as root from an xterm (GNOME environment) X spontaneously restarted. I was running evolution, rhythmbox, firefox and xterms at the time (plus various applets) My clock was out by about 15 minutes at the time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-1 xorg-x11-6.8.1-4 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Let clock get out of sync by 15 mnutes 2. Be logged in to gnome session 3. ntpdate servername Actual Results: Spontaneous restart of xserver. Expected Results: Time change, perhaps a few minor problems with apps. Additional info: Can provide as necessary - let me know what you need.
Just remembered - I saw the response to ntpdate pop up on the terminal before the crash Something like: 2 Oct 12:33:06 ntpdate[18496]: adjust time server 10.61.0.113 offset 0.027329 sec (Response when trying to trigger this with a small offset)
More info: Let my clock drift by 15 minutes again, and similar results. This time X recovered, but took several minutes to do so. During this period, rhythbox stopped playing completely, I was alerted that X had recovered (no screensaver, using xlock) by my music restarting. Using rawhide updated 2 hour ago. Hardware: Dell Inspiron 5000e
Attach your X server log, config file, /var/log/messages, and the output of lsmod to the report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the link below.
Setting status to "NEEDINFO", awaiting file attachments requested above. TIA
The problem seems to have stopped between when I reported this and now. If the problem recurs i'll create a new bug. Close for now. Carl G
Ok, I'll set this to "RAWHIDE" for now. If the problem recurs, please report it to X.Org via http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component, and supply full details for reproduceability. This will ensure the problem is visible to maximum number of X developers which will accelerate the likelyhood of an early resolution. Thanks.