FC2 X crashes after remote nmap

Francis Stevens Francis.Stevens at bristow.co.uk
Fri Aug 20 09:58:33 UTC 2004


Hit the send button to soon, the Xorg.0.log file ends with:-

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

FAS

Francis Stevens wrote:
> I'm running FC2 on a DELL GX240 with the latest yum updates (as of 20th 
> Aug 2004) and I've found that if I do a remote nmap against this machine 
>  X crashes. The nmap returns normally but the workstation either 
> "freezes" or crashes out of X altogether.  When the machine "freezes" 
> it's possible to ssh into it and "telinit 3" then "telinit 5" to restart 
> X but from the keyboard the machine looks dead. Sometime X dies 
> completely and the machine goes back to a console login - which works.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> FAS
> 
> 





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