Bug#423775: xserver-xorg-core: Still experiencing crashes, will try Sid's 1.4 version.
Le Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:04:34PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
> Speaking of your previous messages, I'm still slightly confused by an
> apparent contradiction that you can maybe clarify:
>
> On the one hand, you said that disabling the DRI avoids the freezes. If
> that is still the case, this indicates that the freezes are GPU lockups.
> (BTW, would disabling the DRI not be a viable workaround?)
>
> On the other hand, you said that after killing the frozen X server,
> another X server comes up and works. That's inconsistent with a GPU
> lockup but could be related to another problem referenced previously.
Hi Michel,
I stopped using the machine for 6 months (the hard drive crash happened
in November), so I unfortunatly do not remember what I did to "disable
the DRI". I regret I have not documented it.
There is some variability in the symptoms of this bug, so it makes the
things even more confusing. I remember that once I had to restart GDM
because killing X was not enough. But I wonder whether in some previous
times killing X by ssh was enough. Today I restarted the machine via
ssh, and it kept displaying the frozen X screen until the shutdown was
completed. I am not completely sure, but it seems that the more I move
the mouse when the freeze happens, the likelier that I will not be able
to log in by ssh. Also, I have experienced intermediate steps in which
one window does not respond before everything gets frozen.
I hope that the upgrade will fix the problem, it just seems too
complicated to handle.
PS: disabling DRI would also be viable, I do not think I need it for the
moment. But who knows for later ?
Thanks a lot for the care you give to this puzzling bug. If I do not
report anything in the next weeks, please anybody feel free to ping me.
--
Charles
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