It happened to me again this evening. Here's some stuff from /var/log
/var/log/messages syslog and user.log:
21:04:44 localhost gconfd (pt-5429): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
21:04:53 localhost gconfd (pt-5429): Exiting
auth.log:
21:04:51 localhost gdm[4876]: (pam_unix) session closed for user pt
daemon.log:
21:04:53 localhost gdm[4876]: Error reinitilizing server
Xorg.0.log:
Fatal server error: Caught signal 4. Server aborting
It happened to me again this evening. Here's some stuff from /var/log
/var/log/messages syslog and user.log:
21:04:44 localhost gconfd (pt-5429): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
21:04:53 localhost gconfd (pt-5429): Exiting
auth.log:
21:04:51 localhost gdm[4876]: (pam_unix) session closed for user pt
daemon.log:
21:04:53 localhost gdm[4876]: Error reinitilizing server
Xorg.0.log:
Fatal server error: Caught signal 4. Server aborting
This was preceded by the following backtrace: X(xf86SigHandle r+0x86) [0x80b4b06] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so(_swrast_ Triangle+ 0x2d) [0xb7b5b77d] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so [0xb7b9bae5] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so [0xb7bb325f] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so [0xb7bb45ab] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so(_tnl_ run_pipeline+ 0x16e) [0xb7ba24b7] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so(_tnl_ playback_ vertex_ list+0x4cc) [0xb7ba8c3c] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so [0xb7ac5872] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so(_mesa_ CallList+ 0x47) [0xb7ac5d07] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libGLcore. so(glCallList+ 0x23) [0xb7aa9eed] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libglx. so(__glXDisp_ CallList+ 0x1f) [0xb7cad3f3] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libglx. so(__glXRender+ 0xd0) [0xb7cc573f] xorg/modules/ extensions/ libglx. so [0xb7cc848d] X(Dispatch+ 0x19e) [0x8085d86] X(main+ 0x47c) [0x806e108] libc.so. 6(__libc_ start_main+ 0xd4) [0xb7de7ea4] X(FontFileCompl eteXLFD+ 0x8d) [0x806d671]
0: /usr/bin/
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/lib/
3: /usr/lib/
4: /usr/lib/
5: /usr/lib/
6: /usr/lib/
7: /usr/lib/
8: /usr/lib/
9: /usr/lib/
10: /usr/lib/
11: /usr/lib/
12: /usr/lib/
13: /usr/lib/
14: /usr/bin/
15: /usr/bin/
16: /lib/tls/
17: /usr/bin/
Hope this helps a bit.