Hei Timo Thanks for the report. Next time you hit this problem it would be nice with a strace (and also gdb) dump of the process. It is then possible to localize the hang further.
My suspicion in this case is the Linux kernel or the gimp-print because they are the only one changed. Gimp print could hang in a display loop and the kernel can hang for various reasons... Best regards, // Ola On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:33:50AM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using vnc4server on debian etch for years and it has been > mostly rock-solid. However, recently I have started hitting this bug > again and again (strace looks similar so I guess it is the same > bug). Logs show that Xvnc4 has been restarted now four times: > > Tue Dec 2 23:52:23 2008 > Sat Dec 6 16:18:42 2008 > Sat Dec 13 00:55:19 2008 > Tue Dec 16 03:13:00 2008 > > This computer is sharing ext2 /home via NFS but vnc4server is > accessing it locally so this should not matter. Also, I don't think I > have made any significant changes to the system recently: > > 2008-11-17 reboot to linux-image-2.6.18-6-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-23 > 2008-11-23 changed ip address of openvpn tunnel > 2008-11-28 installed gimp-print > > The machine has plenty of RAM > > $ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1036652 601088 435564 0 31920 287472 > -/+ buffers/cache: 281696 754956 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > and ulimit of the normal user should not be too restrictive > > $ ulimit -a > core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited > max nice (-e) 0 > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited > pending signals (-i) unlimited > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited > open files (-n) 1024 > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 > POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) unlimited > max rt priority (-r) 0 > stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited > max user processes (-u) 512 > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited > file locks (-x) unlimited > > > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [email protected] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [email protected] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
