Xorg freezes, crashes, locks, shoots and leaves
Gene Smith
gds at chartertn.net
Mon Sep 6 19:22:19 UTC 2004
Andrea Giuliano wrote, On 09/06/2004 04:26 AM:
> Dear Gene,
>
> I know your problem very well! Anyway, after having X freezing the
> system for several months, at present it doesn't happen any more. It's
> hard to say way.
>
> I only can suggest you to add the following lines to xorg.conf:
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "true"
> Option "AllowClosedownGrabs" "true"
> EndSection
>
> They allow you to use C-A-K-* and C-A-K-/ to try to unlock X in some
> situations (see man xorg.conf for a few detail). To avoid
> misunderstandings, please note that C-A-K-* means "Control, Alt, Keypad
> *" pressed together.
Ctrl-alt-backspace, I thought, was supposed to kill X by default (unless
disabled somehow). Have not tried ctrl-alt-bspace with working fc2
system. Perhap it is different with new xorg and you need the above Section?
I will read the man put these in my file and see what happens. Thanks.
>
> This could be a start to investigate what is happening to your system. I
> would not be very optimistic, but at least you can try, it's very easy.
> Remember to restart your X server after the changes above.
>
> Best regards... and good luck!!!
>
> Gene Smith wrote:
>
>> Maybe there is something wrong with my computer, I don't know, but it
>> passes the overnight test of memtest86 from the fc 2 cd and fsck.
>>
>> The problem is that X seems to just freeze up at random times.
>> Sometimes it goes for days with no problem. Sometimes it is twice in
>> one day, like today. It also seems to be more frequent (possibly) with
>> the latest kernel 2.6.8-1.521 (and I have kept completely updated with
>> yum).
>>
>> My driver is the default nvidia for a GeForce3 Ti 200 card and system
>> is 500Mhz Athlon with 384M memory. It has run other linux systems for
>> years with no problem, e.g., RH 7.2, Debian.
>>
>> By "freeze" I mean the keyboard and mouses button do nothing, only the
>> mouse cursor moves. The system does not really crash. The freeze is
>> never associated with doing any particular thing, AFAICT.
>>
>> I can go run vncviewer from another box and it comes up and works
>> fine. After "killall -9 X" I can then login again and it goes again. I
>> have seen this with KDE and GNOME (but I typically just run KDE).
>>
>> I have been having this problem during fc2 test and after clean
>> install of fc2. See my previous message on this list, Subject "X lock
>> / crash + slowdowns - fc2" and possibly others where I have mentioned
>> this.
>>
>> I have no screen saver active.
>>
>> Any idea what could be causing this or how I can troubleshoot it? Or
>> is it a continuing bug in fc2 or Xorg?
>>
>> Tks,
>> -gene
>>
>>
>>
>>
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