antiX 19.2 “””fresh””” install. slim X Display Manager terminates randomly

[Anonymous]

Greetings!

I’m having trouble with an antiX 19.2, with no updated programs (except vim, mc…) and some purged (youtube-dl, celluloid, roxfiler, icewm).

When I use the operating system for a long time, slim may randomly log off, making me lose all unsaved work and downloads (I have really slow Internet, which means losing a download is painful).

Other times, slim would simply crash(?) and kick me back into the command line (on a useless terminal, which only has a non-blinking cursor on the upper left corner of the screen. I have to use SysRQ+R, then Win+<Arrow Key> to move around the other terminals). When I try to use something like “sudo killall X slim”, then “sudo slim”, the computer then stays on a screen with a non-blinking cursor on the upper left corner of the screen, just that I can not move around the other terminals, not even after using SysRQ+R or SysRQ+R,E,I.

I would like to get rid of this problem, but I do not know what’s the cause.

Does anybody know the solution to this problem?

[Member bci]

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I have a similar problem (running AntiX 19.1):


$ inxi
CPU: Dual Core Intel Core i5-2520M (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1794/800/3200 MHz Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64
Up: 17m Mem: 559.3/7869.3 MiB (7.1%) Storage: 298.09 GiB (11.4% used)
Procs: 176 Shell: bash 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36


I’d be in JWM, and I’d get logged out inexplicably (I was using JWM, so I switched to a different WM to see if that was the problem, still not sure.)
Not sure, for example, if I was accidentally hitting some keys corresponding to a weird setting hidden in some root-owned system config file?

[Anonymous]

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bci wrote:

I’d be in JWM, and I’d get logged out inexplicably (I was using JWM, so I switched to a different WM to see if that was the problem, still not sure.)
Not sure, for example, if I was accidentally hitting some keys corresponding to a weird setting hidden in some root-owned system config file?

I’m beginning to come to a conclusion.

Have you deleted any programs coming with an antiX fresh install?

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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I’m beginning to come to a conclusion.

Have you deleted any programs coming with an antiX fresh install?

Care to elaborate on this? Thanks.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Anonymous]

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randomly log off… or crash? Have you noticed any logged error messages?
/var/log/slim or ~/.xsession-errors

accidentally hitting some keys corresponding to a weird setting hidden

For JWM, keybind assignments are specified in the (editable) file ~/jwm/keys
Yes, the default may contain a hidden (er, unknown to you) combo which performs session logout.
(I seem to recall local kids tripping over that combo so I wound up outcommenting its line within the keys file)

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