Periodic Fedora 9 system hangs with jumpy mouse

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Wed Jun 25 19:44:42 UTC 2008


Deron Meranda wrote:
>> "kill -15 'pid#'" to kill it. if '-15' fails, use '-7'.
> 
> I did the ps thing.  Only one Xorg process was running.

should be just 1.

> I also tried kills in the following order:
> 
>   kill -TERM  (-15)
>   kill -SEGV  (-11)
>   kill -KILL (-9)

this is not same as what i was showing you above. use numbers, not words.

type it as "kill -15 'pid#'" and use '-7' if '-15' does not work.

there is a difference in what i am showing you and what you are using.

> 
> The first two did nothing.  The last kill (which is not blockable)
> changed the process name from "Xorg" to "[Xorg]" and blanked
> the /proc/xxx/exe symlink; but otherwise the Xorg process
> remained in a run state consuming 100% cpu.
> 
> BTW, I've now looked through the Xorg.0.log file, and nothing
> interesting shows up in it when this "hang" occurs.

being that it 'hangs' there may not be any log entry.


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