Re: X freezing.

[Chris Wakefield <c_wakefield@shaw.ca>]

Hi Dave.

Thanks for the good suggestions.

I've tried a few of them.  Right now I'm running on the "buggy" X and 
monitoring from my other machine at the same time.  I've dropped the number 
of proggies.
Still not sure what's up, and I'll inform the thread when I figure it out.

Thanks again.
Chris W.

On March 24, 2005 05:36 pm, David Liontooth wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> To try to isolate the problem (I have no clue and others may have better
> suggestions), I would start just X, without running a desktop manager.
> Just type X at the command prompt -- that is to say, don't run gdm at
> boot, or kill it and log in without running X-windows, then type X.
> Open a new CLI (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and run top to see CPU usage. If you see
> the same behavior, you know the problem in in XFree86, not in any number
> of other apps that run when you run X-windows. I would in that case take
> the problem to the Debian X-strike force, and active and responsive bunch.
>
> OTOH, the problem may well lie somewhere else, and running X alone works
> fine. In that case, you could start a terminal session inside X-windows
> with a command like
>
>     xterm -display <your machine name>:0 &
>
> (I've only tried this on remote systems running a vncserver), and then
> start one application at a time until you find the culprit. Sometimes
> moving the configuration files temporarily out of the way helps (for
> instance, ~/.kde). Or you could run icewm as your window manager and see
> if you get the same problems.
>
> Dave