Hi Folks:
I know I've asked before, but it is so frustrating to lose an hour of
work, trying to convince myself that I won't get reamed this time. But
I keep going back, like to some sort of abusive codependent
relationship, to put it into California terms.
I'm using a molecular graphics model building crystallography program
called coot, but this happens with enough other X11 applications that
I don't think it is the fault of coot. Prior to OS X 10.5, I never
ever had a problem with X11.
If I try to resize a window while the program is loading, it is a
guarantee that the Xserver will freeze. However, if I try to be real
careful, I can start to get work done, but then when some window or
pop-up menu appears, a half hour or an hour into a session of work,
I'll get a random freeze.
I'm running 10.5.2 on intel (but this happens on all my 10.5.2
computers, ppc and intel) and the latest X11 from the update page, and
when I sample the frozen processes I get this as output:
Sampling process 22465 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between
samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling X (pid 22465) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
2009 Thread_2503
2009 start
2009 main
2009 DarwinHandleGUI
2009 X11ApplicationMain
2009 -[NSApplication run]
2009 -[X11Application sendEvent:]
2009 RootlessReorderWindow
2009 xprRestackFrame
2009 xp_configure_window
2009 _xp_do_request
2009 _xp_synchronize
2009 _xp_async_dequeue
2009 pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003
2009 __semwait_signal
2009 __semwait_signal
2009 Thread_2603
2009 thread_start
2009 _pthread_start
2009 __ape_agent
2009 mach_msg
2009 mach_msg_trap
2009 mach_msg_trap
2009 Thread_2703
2009 thread_start
2009 _pthread_start
2009 server_thread
2009 main
2009 Dispatch
2009 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
2009 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
2009 Thread_2803
2009 thread_start
2009 _pthread_start
2009 _xp_async_thread
2009 _xp_async_dequeue
2009 pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003
2009 __semwait_signal
2009 __semwait_signal
Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
__semwait_signal 4018
mach_msg_trap 2009
select$DARWIN_EXTSN 2009
Sample analysis of process 22465 written to file /dev/stdout
Sampling process 18092 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between
samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling X (pid 18092) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
2014 Thread_2503
2014 start
2014 main
2014 DarwinHandleGUI
2014 X11ApplicationMain
2014 -[NSApplication run]
2014 -[X11Application sendEvent:]
2014 RootlessReorderWindow
2014 xprRestackFrame
2014 xp_configure_window
2014 _xp_do_request
2014 _xp_synchronize
2014 _xp_async_dequeue
2014 pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003
2014 __semwait_signal
2014 __semwait_signal
2014 Thread_2603
2014 thread_start
2014 _pthread_start
2014 __ape_agent
2014 mach_msg
2014 mach_msg_trap
2014 mach_msg_trap
2014 Thread_2703
2014 thread_start
2014 _pthread_start
2014 server_thread
2014 main
2014 Dispatch
2014 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
2014 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
2014 Thread_2803
2014 thread_start
2014 _pthread_start
2014 _xp_async_thread
2014 _xp_async_dequeue
2014 pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003
2014 __semwait_signal
2014 __semwait_signal
Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
__semwait_signal 4028
mach_msg_trap 2014
select$DARWIN_EXTSN 2014
Sample analysis of process 18092 written to file /dev/stdout
My kids want to know why I swear at the computer so much. I'm almost
ready to reformat the disk and install ubuntu linux.
Thanks.
Bill Scott
