Bug#452981: ratpoison: Ratpoison interactive boxes lock up X
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:51:40AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * jacob <jacob@heider.homelinux.net> [071130 10:39]:
> > When using C-t !, ratpoison now causes X to spin out of control, using
> > 100% CPU, and causing local keyboard to be unresponsive until killed via
> > ssh. I suspect that C-t : would be similarly affect, but am reluctant to
> > try it, as it is an EXTREMELY annoying breakage. I strongly suspect that
> > this is due to libc6 2.7-1 finally pushing through, since that seems to
> > be when it started.
>
> In my tests Xorg even keeps at 100% system load after I stop ratpoison
> in the debugger. So I guess there is definitly some bug Xorg. (I don't
> know yet if ratpoison does something illegal to cause this, but Xorg
> should definitly not hang this way).
>
I agree. To fix the situation, I generally have to kill -9 `pidof X` a
couple of time, then restart the dm.
> Could you tell me the versions of Xorg (and which drivers) you are using,
> so I can properly reassign/clone[1] the bug to xorg?
ii xorg 1:7.3+7 X.Org X Window System
ii xorg-docs 1:1.4-2 Miscellaneous documentation for the X.Org so
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+7 the X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20071119-1 Xorg X server - core server
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.2-3 X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.3-1 X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070706-1 Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86
ii xserver-xorg-video-sis 1:0.9.3-6 X.Org X server -- SiS display driver
>
> Hochachtungsvoll,
> Bernhard R. Link
>
> [1] depending whether I see anything causing ratpoison being responsible
> for this or not.
>
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