X stopped after clicking a menu item in blackbox to start xterm

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:24:22 +0100
Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 17.02.2014 08:18, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > [ 19391.368] (WW) intel(0): drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -22
> > [ 19391.374] Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
> 
> X.Org isn't the culprit here ("Server terminated successfully"). I
> guess the window manager exited (normally or not, I don't know) and
> the X server exited because your .xinitrc script quit after the
> windows manager.
> 
> You could use the following command from X (after restarting X) to see
> if a program displayed an error on the console:
>   vidcontrol -H -P </dev/ttyv0
> 
> Or you can add it to the end of your .xinitrc script and log the
> output to a file.

I will do so in any case.
> 
> The "drmDropMaster failed" error isn't important here: xserver always
> tries to set master/drop master when VT-switching, but we don't
> support that feature yet.
> 
This was the one that confused me. I can't tell you for how long I did
not have X crashes. So, it really surprised me.

Thanks for the explanation.

Erich