Bug#516014: xorg: Since upgrade to Lenny on 2/15, Xorg frequenly spikes CPU to 100%
Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.3+18
Severity: important
Since upgrading to Lenny on 2/15, UIs will "freeze" -- that is, keystrokes and mouse clicks will
fail to register (neither ctrl-alt-del nor ctrl-alt-bksp will function, either), although the
arrow will move when the mouse is moved. Occasionally, the screen will go entirely black and go
into "standby" as if no signal is being generated by the video card. This does not happen when the
computer is "idling," only when keyboard/mouse is being used and the display changes (like when
browsing the internet). Hard reboot brings the computer back up and functioning, until use
creates the same condition.
I have been able to recreate this problem with some frequency. I have also been able to ssh to
this system and tail -f various log files as the problem occurs -- but haven't been able to detect
anything in the logs.
However, I am able to run top and consistently see that as the problem occurs, Xorg spikes
near 100% and stays there. In addition, several hald-addon-storage processes become the next most
used processes, taking up about 20% CPU each (this is a dual processor system). These conditions,
as reported by top, always accompany the display issues noted above, whether the screen goes black
or not.
Let me know if you need more info.
Thanks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.22.3-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.3-7 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.0.3-7 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii x11-apps 7.3+4 X applications
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.3+2+nmu1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.3+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+1 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+5 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1 X Window System font utility progr
ii xinit 1.0.9-2 X server initialisation tool
ii xkb-data 1.3-2 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+18 the X.Org X server
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 235-2 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages xorg recommends:
pn xorg-docs <none> (no description available)
xorg suggests no packages.
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