Re: X hangs

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:03 +1100, Rick Marshall wrote:
> I'm using FC6 on Thinkpad Z60m.
> 
> About once a day X seems to hang. The cursor still works but button 
> clicks don't and windows don't receive events. CTRL-ALT-BS doesn't work 
> and CTRL-ALT-DEL (obviously) doesn't work.
> 
> However the machine still seems to be working.
> 
> I haven't got a crash dump because all I can do is power off :(

The usual trick in this situation is to ssh in, su root, and attach gdb
to the X server process to see where it's spinning.

- ajax