Bug#286213: reopen 286213

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Jeroen N. Witmond wrote:
>>>> Is the X process consuming lots of CPU when the freeze occur?
>>>>         
>>> I don't know. I have no access to the system when X freezes.
>>>       
>> can you setup sshd so you can login from another machine when the
>> interface freezes?
>>     
>
> I will try, but it will take some doing, as I do not have a second
> machine.  So I will have to wait for a freeze, then go to a friend's
> house, ssh into my machine and then?
>
> What do I look for? CPU consumption? Anything else?
>   

Xorg.0.log for sure.

CPU consumption eventually.
Run "gdb $(pidof X)", look at the backtrace a couple times and see if
you can find whether X is stuck somewhere.

Brice