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

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 19:11, 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?
> 
> -- 
> 

Hi Dan

What version kernel, nvidia driver and filesystem are you
running?

I updated my nvidia drivers to the latest 2313, and only had
problems (screen corruption, lockups, etc) on a system that
had been running stable for a long time now. i went back to
the previous version, and it is 100% again.  I also had problems with my
old savage and sertain drivers.

Then, nearly a year back, I had the same type of problems
(lockups), but this was due to bad ram, and a kernel/reiserfs
and hardware compat problem.


Greetings,
-- 

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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