X freezes was Re: intermittent audio.
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.
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