Bug#379480: (no subject)

[Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:12:02 +0200, <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 12:42:51AM +0200, Ji???? Pale??ek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > >I'd be stunned if this was actually a server problem, and not a
> > >client-side problem related to grabs.  Which window manager do you use?
> > >Does changing it fix anything?
> >
> > I use openbox. However, I don't think it's a client side problem, as
> > no grabs can prevent Ctrl-Alt-F1 and such to work. The freezes seem
> > random -- the last one I experienced (after ~week of flawless work)
> > occured after I opened a file with kate.
>
> You're lucky.  I might be able to use X in Debian if it only crashed
> once a week.  As it is, I'm still dual-booting Ubuntu if I want to get
> any work done.
>
> I use icewm and gdm.  As mentioned on the original bug report, it
> randomly freezes even when I use a remote machine via XDMCP.
> The local machine that's running the X server still freezes randomly.
> I suppose the remote client could ask for things that freeze the
> server, but isn't that still a server problem?

If you get freezes regularly, you could possibly debug it. However,
I'm not an X developper, so I can't give you advice on that.

I think that it is an internal server problem which doesn't depend
on whether the clients are local or remote.  (The only difference I
can tell is that the remote cannot use the shared memory extension).

Could you try upgrading xserver-xorg-xxx to unstable version to see
whether the problem persists in later versions?

Regards
    Jiri Palecek