Re: Very occassional lockups of X
Alan Chandler wrote:
>
> I am running what is essentially a debian woody system (with KDE from CVS on
> top). This means XFree 4.0.3
>
> Every so often (maybe once every two weeks) the user interface locks solid.
> The cursor disappears and no screen updates occur.
>
> I can still ssh into the machine from elsewhere, and can see that most of it
> is running perfectly. The only way to clear this is to kill -9 the xserver
> from this ssh connection, at which point the screen springs into life.
>
> I don't know how to go about checking what might be the cause, there seems to
> be no obvious action on my part that causes this to happen.
>
> Anyone else have similar problems?
I'm seeing lockups also but not quite the same.
The cursor is still there and moveable, but I can
nolonger click on anything or change focus. I
can use CTRL-ALT-F[X] to switch to a console
window and kill the app I was just working in
however no other key combinations that I know of
work. I've had the most trouble with Freeamp.
If I double click on a song list it will sometimes
lockup. I've also had lockups in other apps too.
Killing the app I was working in at the time of
the lockup frees up the condition that caused
the lockup. I can then restart it. My guess is
there is a race condition. I last upgraded to
SID about a week ago.
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