On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:37:15PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 9/14/07, Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> wrote: > > > > I regularly see a similar problem on several boxen - and have for > > quite some time. > > * Mouse cursor moves, and can select windows (maximize/minimize) > > * Can not select items in a window (firefox/etc) with mouse > > * No keyboard response in any window > > > > All boxes are Sid - kept current daily. I first thought it might be > > hibernate/resume related - but when it started happening on my desktop > > I discounted that :) > > > > It may, however, be power related - I don't recall seeing the issue > > before I enabled conservative(amd_64 desktop) or on-demand(intel_64) > > power management. > > > > On the laptop, things are often fine until after a resume, I run ntpdate > > to correct the clock. > > > > CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE (killing the WindowMaker session) always gets me out > > of the problem, but it isn't fun. > > I don't have any power management going on, and it seems like > the freeze is harder - ctrl-alt-backspace and C-A-D have no effect > at all, even after remotely killing SeaMonkey (no window selection, > either). And remotely killing X doesn't change any thing either. > Sometime the power button "soft off" (clean shutdown) works but > once only "hard off" worked. > > I the past I have encountered freezes that could be solved by > C-A-BS or by remotely killing the process, but I have only had > this harder freeze since around the time etch went stable. > just a word to the wise when dealing with these issues... magic sysrq key, be sure to google it. The two that are most useful, to me anyway, are Alt-sysrq-s to sync the filesystems (you'll see your drive light come on briefly and you;ll get a console message if you happen to be in one.) alt-sysrq-b to reboot. A
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