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Bug#661293: xorg: Random desktop freeze leaving mouse clicks, keyboard and SysRq unusable. i5 Sandy Bridge



severity 661293 important
thanks

jimmy the saint <lowid95@gmail.com> (25/02/2012):
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss

Nope, that's not what data loss means.

>    Several times a day my Thinkpad X220 will experience a desktop freeze which
> leaves the system in a state in which I cannot interact with it.  The mouse
> moves, but clicks are ignored.  The keyboard, including SysRq is unusable.  The
> only option is to hold the power button down and lose any work that has been
> unsaved.  I marked this grave, because I consider that, as well as interrupted
> and subsequently corrupted file transfers as data loss.
> 
>         The only error I can see is
>         [ 13636.715] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an
> infinite loop.
> 
> This happens seemingly at random, and I have found no correlation between any
> programs open and these freezes.  In fact, it has happened with no programs
> opened when I walked away from the laptop for a few minutes.

Please try xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.18.0-1, available in unstable.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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