[gentoo-user] X locks up

[gentoo-user] X locks up

[Michael George]

I have been having trouble with my system.  For some reason, I've only
noticed it recently, but nothing has been updated on the system.

What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have open
office running on my right screen and I click "File", the displays will
freeze.  The system is still running, because I can get in from one of
my terminals.  I check and X is consuming 100% of one processor.

I can kill openoffice and ctwm (my window manager) reasily, but I have
to use -9 option to kill to get X to die.  Even after that, though, the
video and keyboard are still locked.  The only way I know of to get them
back is to restart the system.

IIRC, it only happens when OOo is on the right screen, but I can start
oowriter2, put it on the right screen, and click file and it won't
always lock things up.

System info:
openoffice-bin-2.1.0
xorg-x11-7.1
xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS="mga", INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse")
libXinerama-1.0.1
ctwm-3.7
Video card: Matrox G450
System starts up to a CLI login, not XDM

Anyone have any clue as to what is going on here?  Is there a way I can
release the hold on my keyboard and/or display so that I can just get to
the console so that I can reissue "startx"?

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Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up

[Benno Schulenberg]

Michael George wrote:
> What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have
> open office running on my right screen and I click "File", the
> displays will freeze.  The system is still running, because I can
> get in from one of my terminals.  I check and X is consuming 100%
> of one processor.  [...]
>
> System info:
> openoffice-bin-2.1.0
> xorg-x11-7.1
> xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS="mga", INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
> mouse") 

Hmm, mga.  You're probably looking at one of these bugs:
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8666
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473

What version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga are you using?  Have you 
tried upgrading to the latest, 1.4.6.1?

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up

[Michael George]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:11:15PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Michael George wrote:
> > What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have
> > open office running on my right screen and I click "File", the
> > displays will freeze.  The system is still running, because I can
> > get in from one of my terminals.  I check and X is consuming 100%
> > of one processor.  [...]
> >
> > System info:
> > openoffice-bin-2.1.0
> > xorg-x11-7.1
> > xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS="mga", INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
> > mouse") 
> 
> Hmm, mga.  You're probably looking at one of these bugs:
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8666
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473
> 
> What version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga are you using?  Have you 
> tried upgrading to the latest, 1.4.6.1?

Thaks for that lead.  I usually don't build ~arch packages, but I will
give that a try!

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Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up

[Michael George]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:11:15PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Michael George wrote:
> > What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have
> > open office running on my right screen and I click "File", the
> > displays will freeze.  The system is still running, because I can
> > get in from one of my terminals.  I check and X is consuming 100%
> > of one processor.  [...]
> >
> > System info:
> > openoffice-bin-2.1.0
> > xorg-x11-7.1
> > xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS="mga", INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
> > mouse") 
> 
> Hmm, mga.  You're probably looking at one of these bugs:
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8666
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473
> 
> What version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga are you using?  Have you 
> tried upgrading to the latest, 1.4.6.1?

I tried the upgrade to 1.4.6.1, but the same thing happened.  X is the
runaway, for when I kill it, the load drops right off...

It did seem that the 1.4.6.1 video driver sucked up a lot more memory,
though.  I think I'll downgrade it, I'm no worse off...

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Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up

[Michael George]

So far, I haven't checked the output of Xorg.0.log.  Next time it locks
up, I'll check that and file a bug with freedesktop with all my details.
The two bugs you cite may be similar, but since I still get the lockup
with 1.4.6.1, it's not quite the same.

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