Bug#445553: Correction: xserver-xorg-video-sis: X crashes from various openGL programs with DRI
Matthew Gibson wrote:
> I finally managed to network and run ssh, and here is some of what I
> found.
> This is while running xscreensaver sundancer2.
>
>
> When my system was crashed, top displayed:
> Xorg was using about 45% of my cpu, and a normal amount of memory.
> Sundancer2 was using about 45% of my cpu, and a normal amount of memory
> sshd was using about .5% CPU
> mpd (music player deamon, which was playing music) was using about 4%
> of CPU
> top was using about 1% of CPU.
>
> I found that I couldn't kill either sundancer or Xorg unless I used
> the -s KILL signal. dmesg showed no additional messages when my
> computer was crashed, and no messages had been sent to Xorg.0.log
>
> I could still run stuff through ssh fine, just Xorg and the offending
> program were hung up. No output was made to the screen, and no
> keyboard input was received. (A But I could still kill programs and
> start (non-graphical) programs in ssh.)
> I could kill sundancer2, and then Xorg sat on 95 % of my processor,
> still accomplishing nothing.
>
> I then tried killing Xorg. It shutsdown, my screen flashed blank, and
> then top showed it started up again, under a new PID. Again, it sat on
> 95 % of my resources, and was still frozen.
Is it better with xserver-xorg-video-sis 1:0.9.3-6 from unstable? (or at
least the one from testing)
Brice
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