Re: [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu

["m3thos" <m3thos@netcabo.pt>]

The same kind of lookups happened to me in my debian box.
I believe that the problem is related with the nvidia drivers, i also use
the latest nvidia driver.


Miguel Sousa Filipe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Armak" <danarmak@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu


> Hi all,
>
> On my new r12 system I've had a hangup in X11. No apparent cause. The
system
> stopped accepting any input and the screen didn't even complete a redraw.
The
> mouse went on moving as it was in h/w, but clicks were no good. Magic
sysrq
> wasn't responding either.
>
> I logged in via ssh, and top showed X was taking 100% cpu. I tried killall
X,
> no effect. I tried kill -9 <X pid>, the remote login hung up and i
couldn't
> ssh to it again. I had to do a hard reboot.
>
> Then I expirienced the same effect twice on an old rc5 system which
underwent
> absolutely no updates or config changes for a few months now. Only this
was
> standalone not on a net, so I couldn't login via ssh.
>
> Both rc6 lockups were when running kmail, both rc5 lockups while running
> ksirc.
>
> Trying to send this message, I had another lockup on the rc6 system, hope
> this reaches you.
>
> I'm absolutely mystified. Ideas? Anyone seen this kind of thing before?
>
> --
>
> Dan Armak
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
> Matan, Israel
>
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