Re: Xfree86 taking up 99% of cpu and hanging system

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net>]

I received the following mail

On Sunday 06 March 2005 05:15 pm, Mitchell Laks wrote:
Mitchell Laks wrote:
 > Hi,
 > suddenly  I have my debian sid system/ running KDE freezing  and when 
i ssh from another system  and when I run top
 > i see
 >
 > 7063 root      25   0     0    0    0 R 99.8  0.0  14:33.81 XFree86
 > 1 root      16   0  1500  484 1344 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.57 init
 >
 > so XFree86 is full use of cpu.
 > ...
 > I finally have to shutdown -r now to get my machine back.

Mitchell,

Exactly the same problem on the same setup. I came home this afternoon 
to find X frozen and only a remote reboot would bring it back. X has 
worked perfectly in the past, the only change I can think of was an 
`apt-get upgrade` last night. The packages (dated yesterday in 
/var/cache/apt/archives) were:

xfce4_4.2.0.xfld-7_all.deb
libecal6_1.0.4-0.1_i386.deb
libedataserver3_1.0.4-0.1_i386.deb
dialog_1.0-20050306-1_i386.deb
libsensors3_1%3a2.9.0-15_i386.deb
libstartup-notification0_0.8-2_i386.deb
gtk2-engines-xfce_2.3.0cvs20050306-1_i386.deb
xfce4-battery-plugin_0.2.0.xfld-3_i386.deb
xfce4_4.2.0.xfld-6_all.deb
xfld-desktop_4.2.0.xfld-6_all.deb
xfce4-systemload-plugin_0%3a0.3.5-3_i386.deb
xfce4-netload-plugin_0.2.4-2_i386.deb
xfce4-clipman-plugin_1%3a0.4.1-2_i386.deb
libpango1.0-0_1.8.1-1_i386.deb
libpango1.0-common_1.8.1-1_i386.deb
libpango1.0-dev_1.8.1-1_i386.deb
mozilla-firefox_1.0.1-2_i386.deb
libgcc1_1%3a3.4.3-11_i386.deb

I'm not sure of a way to diagnose this as my X log is free of errors. 
Have you had any luck?

Regards,

James