Re: strange X11 problem

[Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:13:44PM +0200, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:13:44 +0200
> From: Martin Mewes <mm@mewes.tv>
> To: Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>,
> 	debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: strange X11 problem
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net> wrote:
> >   I have a very strange problem with X11. I'm running sarge with Nvidia
> > 2 MX400. nvidia-glx is 1.0.7174-4. The problem is that my desktop
> > freezes, so that mouse pointer still can be mooved (like old days of
> > win3.11 :) but nothing is updated on the screen. If I ssh to this
> > machine, than i see XFree eating all cpu, and it's state, acording to
> > "ps -aux" is RL. What does L mean? And I cannot kill X with SaK --
> > system attention Key.

  It is magic SysRq key. See Documentation/sysrq.txt from kernel source
tree.

> 
> I do not know what SaK is, but can't you kill X with something like
> 
> # /etc/init.d/{xdm|kdm|gdm|??} stop

  I use wdm, but if I try to stop wdm nothing happens, because wdm
doesn't respond to TERM signal, since X is in the strange state. I can
kill wdm with kill -9, but Xfree is still there


  Best wishes

--
Alexei Chetroi

Smile... Tomorrow will be worse. (c) Murphy's Law