Periodic Fedora 9 system hangs with jumpy mouse
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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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