Bug#390172: Bug still exists in 1.1.1-17

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Matthew Wakeling wrote:
> When it fails, the X process is busy-looping, using 99% of CPU.
> Killing it fails, but kill -9 succeeds. Trying to run X again crashes
> the whole system, so I need to reboot after each attempt in order to
> get my working X back.


Once the X server is stuck using 99% of CPU, could you try attaching a
GDB with something like:
    *gdb* -p $(*pidof* *X*)
(as root). I should help us have an idea what's going on.

Thanks for taking time to debug this. And sorry for making you reboot
too often.

thanks,
Brice