still having occasional hard desktop lockups
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Jun 1 16:29:19 UTC 2009
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i know i've mentioned this before but i'm still having the
> occasional desktop lockup where, when i'm trying to, say, just drag a
> window, the cursor changes to the 4-way arrow and just *stays* that
> way. i can still move the cursor but it's painfully slow and there's
> no way to get control of the system back short of power cycling.
>
> IIRC, if i'm on a network, i can still ssh in so the underlying
> system is still functioning, but there's no way to break out of X
> anymore -- ctrl-alt-bs doesn't work.
>
> is anyone else seeing this? radeon driver.
>
> rday
> --
>
I am running into this with KDE desktop. Exact symptoms. The keyboard
is dead and I cannot do anything. Even the Caps Lock key doesn't work.
Num lock does work.
I tried to kill processes from a ssh but had no success.
No process loads to indicate where the problem is. Nothing to report to
assist in a bug report.
What desktop are you running out of curiosity?
I have nVidia on an older system. I have not run into this with my
64bit system.
I have not had a lockup for a few days but before I get into a video
editing session (when my lockups are normal), I log out and back in. It
seems to work great.
You do make a point about the changes. It seems that most of the
lockups are when I make quick changes to the applications.
Any hints on what to look for via strace or what application to look at?
--
Robin Laing
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