Re: [SLUG] An annoying bug, but whose is it?

[Sam Lawrance <boris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/02/2007, at 5:54 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> I have a laptop with Fedora Core 6 and it is set up such that when  
> I close the lid it goes into suspend mode.
>
> When I wake it up by opening the lid all is fine until I start  
> VMware, as soon as I go to start a guest OS under VMware the X  
> server crashes and spawns back to its login prompt.  It only does  
> this on the first occasion after a suspend or hibernate event.
>
> Has anyone seen this?  Is it a hardware bug, a FC bug, a VMware  
> bug, a guest OS bug, or just an annoyance I will have to tolerate  
> and remember about?

Hunt it down!  Attach to the running process with gdb, crash it, and  
get a backtrace to see where it died.  Do it a few times to see if it  
happens at the same spot.