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* [gentoo-user] X freezes & locks up, constantly
  @ 2005-11-08 16:16 99% ` Phill MV
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From: Phill MV @ 2005-11-08 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw
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Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox (
mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent me a file
over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 will lock up and
refuse all interaction.

All windows stop responding; xmms keeps playing; keyboard locks up and the
mouse, although free to wiggle around won't cross from one screen to
another. Logging in from another machine over SSH, top reveals that X is
occupying 90-something% of the CPU; killing individual applications like
firefox or xmms doesn't do anything but killing X gives me back a working,
functional login screen.

This is, as you might imagine, amazingly annoying. For whatever reason,
it'll happen when I click specific links in Firefox (i.e. my professor's
labs & assignments link) or alt tab away or back into Firefox. I haven't
lost much work yet, thanks to my habit of using vim in screen but otherwise
it's frustrating to either boot up a 2nd (non linux) comp or hitting the
restart button.

It started when I accidentally updated a bunch of packages using ~x86
keywords but I've recompiled xorg and firefox back to their 'stable'
versions; sooner or later I'm going to try to recompile everything down to
their stable versions but in the meanwhile, any suggestions?

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