Re: X Window hangs completely, except for the mouse

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

qvvx wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I seem to have a trouble with the X Window System. Both on sarge (where
> the X server is XFree86) and on etch (where I use X.org), the graphics
> system just hangs from time to time. When it does so, the interface
> becomes completely unresponsive, and the keyboard appears to stop
> functioning as well (i.e. if I press Caps Lock, nothing happens;
> naturally, I can't kill X by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, too). Nevertheless,
> the mouse pointer still moves. The system itself also appears to be OK,
> because when I press the Power button, it does some cleanup work and
> shuts down normally (the graphics stay on the screen until the last
> moment, though the mouse stops functioning soon after I press Power).
1) What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say when X hangs? You can check it when 
you boot into the machine the next time.
2) When you do startx, are there any errors reported in /var/log/Xorg.0log?
3) Can you access the machine remotely (say through ssh) when X hangs?
4) Does this problem occur only when you run X? ie If you disable X 
completely and run the machine does it still hang?

raju

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