Bug#301309: xserver-xfree86: xserver uses 98% CPU on sigalrm and sigreturn

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 07:04 +0100, Joergen Haegg wrote:
> Package: xserver-xfree86
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Sometimes the xserver just locks, mouse unusable.
> Investigation from another machine thru ssh reveals
> that the xserver uses all available cpu and cannot be
> killed unless -9 is used.
> An strace shows that
> it receives SIGALRM and does a sigreturn,
> then a new SIGALRM...
> 
> After kill -9 I have to reboot, the keyboard and screen are dead.
> (Not surprising. :-)

[...]

> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Video Card"
> 	Driver		"nvidia"

Please reassign to whichever package provides this driver.


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