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

[djamil <djamil@serveur-express.com>]

just in case this is really, really H/W related, i think i'm gonna
checkout "tux" or something ... a distro made "just for" laptops ...
maybe they have some tricks with these little gizmos...


On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 18:38, Nathaniel Grady wrote:
> To add to this my really old -rc6 system I believe has similar problems - konqueror locks fairly frequently when dragging and dropping (when using as a file manager) - I never ssh'd in to check top because i don't like having any open ports on my laptop. If i ever get my brand-new gentoo install to work with PCMCIA correctly i'll report on that. I do not have this issue with Nautulus or GMC (however i do have a problem that sometmes i get stuck with the "drag and drop" mouse pointer and have to switch to another console to kill -9 gmc or nautulus - i assume that is a backbox or xmms issue). I use default optimization flags for PII in make.conf.
> 
> For anyone who is curious this is a Thinkpad 600e / 128mb ram / 366mhz PII / NeoMAGIC video / ambicom ethernet / CS4232 audio w/ oss drivers. W2K did really odd things to the IRQ/DMA assignments but i reflashed the bios and used mkfs to fix that problem :)
> 
> --Nate Grady
> PS: I'm saying this in hopes that it will help diagnose the problem - I don't really expect to be able to look at much for the next week as it's finals time :( Over xmass break i do plant to get this darn thing workin right :) 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:11:23PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
> > 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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