Bug#551803: [xserver-xorg] frequent X lockups, system still accessible via ssh

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

reassign 551803 xserver-xorg-video-intel
retitle 551803 [855GM] frequent GPU lockups, system still accessible via ssh
tag 551803 moreinfo
kthxbye

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 21:50:19 +0200, e.waelde wrote:

> I do experience random X lockups several times in a two or three hours.
> The mouse moves, but no other updates take place at all (e.g. xclock
> not changing). No key events seem to be processed, allthough its not clear
> whether they are not processed or their processing is not shown.
> 
> login from a different system via ssh works.
> 
> Interestingly "halt" or "shutdown -h now" does not work, I need to switch
> the system off.
> 
> It does not happen using kernel 2.6.26-2 and the backtrace below points
> to a system call rather than an X problem.
> 
> Anything else I can do?

Unfortunately you seem to have a restrictive umask so the initial report
was missing the X log.

Does this still happen with newer intel driver and kernel?  If so please
provide full X log and dmesg, and the output of intel-gpu-dump (from the
intel-gpu-tools package).

Thanks,
Julien