Bug#446820: xorg: X freezes on screensaver or strace
severity 446820 important
tag 446820 moreinfo
reassign 446820 xserver-xorg-core
kthxbye
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 00:03:55 +0200, Pierre Ynard wrote:
> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
>
don't inflate bug severities, please. an x server crash is most of the
time severity: important.
>
> Recently I restarted my X server and took into account the last
> upgrade. Now it appears that when I go away and come back to unlock the
> screensaver, nothing responds. /usr/bin/X takes 99% of the CPU. I wanted
> to investigate, but attaching the process with strace -p XXXX freezes
> X in the same way (nothing at all is output by the strace). Then it
> needs to be killed with a SIGKILL.
>
> I reproduced the problem on a vanilla 2.6.23 kernel. Of course, this is
> annoying because all my session and open work are lost...
>
Unfortunately you don't provide any information about the problem.
As a start, please run
/usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-core/script 3> xorg.446820
and send the resulting xorg.446820 file to this bug.
Cheers,
Julien
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