Re: X freezes was Re: intermittent audio.
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:38:58AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 07:43:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > By the way, she rebooted because X froze up. That's been happeneing too -- suddenly
> > the machine becomes unresponsive te keyboard and mouse -- not even control-alt-F1
> > works. But logging from another machine via ssh still works, so Linux is
> > still up. I can kill -9 X and gdm, and then (and only then) unmount some
> > partitions cleanly to avoid a bad shutdown, and then I issue a reboot commend.
> > Killing X and gdm by themselves doesn't suffice to free up the mouse or keyboard,
> > unfortunately.
>
> Happened to me two days ago. FWIW, I had just used alt-tab to task switch
> Totem to the focus. I can reliably cause the same phenomenon by syncing my
> Palm Tungsten T3 using USB.
Hmmm. She *is* in the habit of using various multimedia stuff. That's probably
relevant.
Funny you should mention USB. I'm having trouble with a 200 GB USB drive.
It seems to cause lockups after a while. I've never been able to use it for its
intended purpose (backups). After a while, it just stops working and every
process that does anything at al with it hangs. But the mouse and keyboard
still work.
-- hendrik
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