[Sunhelp] Xsun instability

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:42:01PM +0900, Michael Geffon wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm very new to Solaris, having recently switched over to Solaris 8 from
> RedHat on my quad-CPU SS20. I got through the install (loooong) and
> applied the recent maintenance update, but am having an extremely
> annoying problem that existed both before and after the MU.
> At seemingly random intervals, my X sessions will bomb out. The screen
> suddenly goes white and then I'm looking at the graphical login dialog
> again. This sometimes happens sooner, and sometimes later after logging
> in, but it consistently happens and I have no idea why. After this
> happens several times, the login dialog no longer appears, and instead I
> get an error message that "the X-sun server could not be started on
> display :0" or something like that, and I usually end up rebooting to
> get a desktop back.
> My hardware:
> SPARCstation SS20
> Quad ROSS RT625 125MHz CPUs
> 192MB RAM
> cgsix FB
> 1 20-inch Sun monitor

With quad CPUs, how's the cooling in the machine?  Thats the first thing
I'd look at.

Bill

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