Bug#364288: Randomly loses input since X11R7 upgrade
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 20:38 +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
>
> Do you think there's any hope of getting nearer any solution to this
> bug in forseeable future? I'm sorry, but this is making my workstation
> so useless that I'll soon downgrade to etch or change to some other
> distribution in the hope that this bug only appears in the Debian
> builds.
Some semi-random ideas to try and narrow down the problem:
* Kill the running X apps one at a time and see if the problem
goes away after killing any of them.
* Add Option "AllowClosedownGrabs" to xorg.conf Section
"ServerFlags" and press Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Multiply when the
problem occurs.
* Do not load the "type1" and/or "freetype" X server modules. If
you actually need their functionality, an X font server such as
xfs should serve as a replacement.
> I tried to attach GDB to the X server but then it just froze solid,
> both with the binary NVidia driver, and with the included one.
You can only attach to the X server with gdb remotely from another
machine (or at the very least from console), as otherwise you end up in
a dead lock where gdb stops execution of the X server, which is what
provides interaction with gdb...
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