Bug#446935: xserver-xorg: Seems to lock up occasionally for no apparent reason
Wim De Smet wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been having some problems with xorg locking up lately. It seems to
> happen most when I open a pdf in evince. Then the following happens.
> - evince starts up, buttons, window bar etc. show up correctly
> - pdf doesn't get rendered
> - mouse is still being rendered correctly, I can still move it etc but I
> can not click anything (no actions), I can not switch virtual desktop.
> Alt-tab etc. does not work. ctrl-alt-f1 does work, as well as
> ctrl-alt-backspace.
>
> I'm using xfce4 and the nvidia propietary drivers. I have no idea what's
> going on here. The only other thing I noticed is when I switch to
> console with ctrl-alt-f1 and back to the xserver stuff like this shows
> up in the logs:
> (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
> (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
> and (from syslog):
> acpid: client connected from 12188[0:0]
> 1 client rule loaded
>
> But this looks like normal application behaviour (?). If you have any
> ideas for debugging this when it occurs again, please let me know.
>
Can you reproduce without the nvidia binary driver?
Brice
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