Logitech cordless keyboard causing kwin lockups?
Hello all,
I have a problem with partial lockups involving Kwin, XFree86, the
suspected culprit being a Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro (ergonomical,
cordless keyboard and trackball-based mouse combo), and I would like
help with ideas for further trouble-shooting, solutions or
recommendations for a possible bug report.
Symptom
CPU usage goes to 100% and visual applications become unresponsive.
Switching to a virtual terminal is not possible, neither with the
Logitech keyboard nor with another keyboard, as they are unresponsive.
The mouse pointer remains active, but clicking anywhere has little
effect.
Results of investigation
I can SSH into the box, and while somewhat slow, it is still quite
responsive. top reveals XFree86 running at nice -10 using about 80% of
the CPU, a kdeinit process taking about 10% and other processes
accounting for the remainder, being at normal levels.
The kdeinit process in question identifies itself as a kwin session when
checking the information for the PID using ps. Killing the process
resolves the problem (but I then have to use the mouse and find the
letters k, w, i, and n to paste into a run dialogue to get the ability
to type and interact with the windows again).
Help wanted
Further ideas for pinning down the problem would be appreciated. Random
facts:
- dmesg doesn't appear to have anything interesting to say.
- ~.xsession-errors contains a few "X Error: BadWindow", but I'm not
sure that's related.
- There seems to be little I can do to provoke the error; it comes up
intermittently, days apart.
- I have observed the problem on two separate computers (both running
Sid) with the same keyboard and mouse combo. The combo uses a USB port,
and I also have a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to one of the computers, and
an internal (PS/2?) keyboard in the other, which is a laptop.
- The problem has been around for several months (I've haven't had time
or resources to deal with it, so I've simply not used the keyboard, to
the detriment of my joints).
Should I file a bug report? Upstream or downstream? With kwin or
whatever is responsible for dealing with the keyboard?
Is this a known problem? A quick Web search didn't reveal anything, but
I'm not entirely sure which terms to use. I didn't see anything similar
in bdo for kwin as far as I could tell. Which other components might I
want to look at?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
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Alex Nordstrom
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