X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)
Hello all,
I'm still trying to chase down some freezes on my box. For sake of
clarity, I'll try to give the relevant details all at once. About a week
and a half ago, I started having total lockups on my box while running X.
It's never happened outside of X, and at first it only seemed to happen
while I was also running XMMS (admittedly, I run it quite often while I'm
working). I tried removing XMMS, and it still hung. The freezes are
total, i.e., no keyboard access, mouse is frozen, etc. Can't do anyhting
except hit the reset switch. I'm keeping an eye on the memory usage to see
if that's the problem, although I have a fair amount so it shouldn't be.
Anyway, here are some details:
uname -a
Linux gashuffer 2.4.7 #1 Tue Jul 24 14:29:31 EDT 2001 i686 unknown (running
woody)
Box is a PIII chip, Via Apollo chipset on the board, hard dries, CD Drive,
SCSI CD Burner, USB interface for superdisk. Rage 128 video card, SBLive
sound card. Up until this I couldn't have been happier with the setup - I
am a recent Windows refugee who finally got tired of crashes and unexpected
bizarre behavior after being up half the night explicitly telling it not to
do just that. I have looked through the various /proc files, and don't see
any obvious interrupt conflicts or other such obvious clues, and the
various /var/log files also don't seem to have anything obvious in them.
I'm assuming that the system is locking before it can write to syslog. The
only obvious error messages are from the XFree86.log, and are as follows:
Operating System: Linux 2.2.19 i686 [ELF] - Shouldn't be right, as I'm
running the 2.4.7 kernel (although I think this may have been the first
kernel I installed - I did it from an old Slink disk)
(WW) Cannot open APM - should be fine, the board uses ACPI, and that's
enabled in the kernel and seems to function normally.
(WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs - I don't know what this means
at all.
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
- both seem like minor errors, but again, I don't know.
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing
from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing
from list! - both of these should be there, as I can see them quite clearly
with ls.
XFree86 is 4.0.3, and I run two Window managers - Sawfish 0.99-1/Gnome
1.4.0.4-4 and Enlightenment 0.16.5
Any ideas, as I'm running out? Memory usage does seem to be a bit high
(~148MB as of right now, but again, I have RAM to burn in there from when a
friend parted out an ex-graphics workstation.
Thanks in advance,
Steve
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