On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, MAH Maccallum wrote: > I am still having repeated failures with this (using MATE as my > desktop). It creates many directories in /var/spool/abrt and a > massive /var/spool/mail/root file unless I clear those at short > intervals. > > Can anybody suggest a reason/cure? Xorg - your main display program keeps crashing. Why ? I would guess that a driver update doesn't play well with your hardware - either your graphics "card" or trackpad are the most likely. There could also be a mismatch between kernel and video driver. I've never used abrt, but it exists to gather together the information necessary to debug problems like this. I would start with: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__developer.fedoraproject.org_tools_abrt_about.html&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=XsIrcSez_VGLuHy_jGgXrYazHSxji0Zyu2dpSBLuO7I&s=EaKPT-pzJIcETldXTHwwJALwMCmRai9cg_9uQeI3TYM&e= The detailed docs appear to be at: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__abrt.readthedocs.io_en_latest_&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=XsIrcSez_VGLuHy_jGgXrYazHSxji0Zyu2dpSBLuO7I&s=R_6x2BwDe9_3_EKOMZU2-Re5aUwJQSXMOV1KNUr94HU&e= I don't know whether it would be safe to put one of these abrt files or emails on the web for us to assist you* or whether they include information which could be personal compromise security (they sound too big to email to the list). -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK [log in to unmask]
