[Nix-dev] Disappearing X session on some systems

[Linus Heckemann]

On 28/05/17 07:17, Kirill Elagin wrote:
> Is there anything noteworthy in the X log? dmesg?
> Surely it doesn’t just disappear without saying anything at all, right?

This stuff should be in the journal, but it isn't in the case of lightdm
[26172].

The X server may also crash without any further information as to why.
This could be [21026] or [25476] at play. Enabling coredumps [1] and
waiting for it to happen again could also help elucidate the issue.

[1]: https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#coredump
[21026]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/21026
[25476]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/25476
[26172]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26172