Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i know i've mentioned this before but i'm still having the occasional desktop lockup where, when i'm trying to, say, just drag a window, the cursor changes to the 4-way arrow and just *stays* that way. i can still move the cursor but it's painfully slow and there's no way to get control of the system back short of power cycling. IIRC, if i'm on a network, i can still ssh in so the underlying system is still functioning, but there's no way to break out of X anymore -- ctrl-alt-bs doesn't work. is anyone else seeing this? radeon driver. rday --
I am running into this with KDE desktop. Exact symptoms. The keyboard is dead and I cannot do anything. Even the Caps Lock key doesn't work. Num lock does work.
I tried to kill processes from a ssh but had no success.No process loads to indicate where the problem is. Nothing to report to assist in a bug report.
What desktop are you running out of curiosity?I have nVidia on an older system. I have not run into this with my 64bit system.
I have not had a lockup for a few days but before I get into a video editing session (when my lockups are normal), I log out and back in. It seems to work great.
You do make a point about the changes. It seems that most of the lockups are when I make quick changes to the applications.
Any hints on what to look for via strace or what application to look at? -- Robin Laing