I am reposting this with additional info on X11.
I had this problem since I changed from mdk 8.1 to mdk 8.2 (2.4.18-6mdk).
8.1 ran w/o any problems for more than half a year on the same hardware.
Problem: I start X11/KDE 2.2.2 as normal user, opening a few consoles in
KDE, maybe a browser; suddenly certain processes stop working - most often
observed in consoles, 'cuz most used.
Even switching out of X to text console doesn't stop this. I start
looking at various status information; soon all is frozen, leaving me with
very few chances to do any real-time diagnostics.
Shutdown hangs too, very early on, or doesn't even start when I try too
much before shutdown.
'ps -ef' hangs between X11 and KDE start (!) -see clips below.
CPU load goes up to 5.x for no (good) reason.
I had that after I installed mdk 8.2 on my original, previous ext2
partition (that installation got trashed at one of those crashes). And
now, with a new installation on ext3 I see similar behavior again.
I didn't see any error message in the logs -but it's possible that I
overlooked some subtle information that points at a problem ?
Any pointer as to what to look for in which logs?
Any tips or comments? .................. Horst
(I looked at the Mandrake archives where someone posted an *unanswered*
message regarding memory leak under X, almost a year ago... doesn't fit
exactly my situation (as far as I understand the post)... hard to imagine
I am the only one since that distro came out...)
============== ps -ef =============
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
...
root 1924 1 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 login -- horxx
root 1925 1 0 00:03 vc/6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
root 1928 1920 0 00:03 vc/1 00:00:00 -bash
horxx 2018 1924 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 -bash
horxx 2044 2018 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 /bin/sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
horxx 2055 2044 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 xinit
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- -deferglyphs 16
root 2056 2055 4 00:03 ? 00:01:04 /etc/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs
16
==CONSOLE HANGS HERE FOR EVER==
== next line would be normally: (different PIDs at diff. boot)==
horxx 2235 2229 0 01:06 tty5 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
...
============== top: =================
12:29am up 26 min, 3 users, load average: 4.88, 3.37, 1.90
93 processes: 91 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 2.7% user, 1.5% system, 0.0% nice, 95.6% idle
Mem: 255772K av, 246160K used, 9612K free, 0K shrd, 46792K
buff
Swap: 546168K av, 3032K used, 543136K free 55928K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2056 root 15 0 26344 21M 2548 S 2.1 8.5 1:08 X
2288 horxx 11 0 9304 8680 7316 R 0.9 3.3 0:05 kdeinit
10498 horxx 15 0 1064 1064 812 R 0.7 0.4 0:00 top
2272 horxx 9 0 9268 9268 8416 S 0.1 3.6 0:01 kdeinit
2285 horxx 9 0 9148 9148 8392 S 0.1 3.5 0:00 kdeinit
1 root 8 0 504 504 440 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapmd
4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00
ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
...
== the resources above used by X are somewhat more than I see under
redhat 8.0
== but that doesn't correlate with a CPU load of almost 5 ???
================== X11 =================
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 23 January 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-1mdksmp i686 [ELF]
Module Loader present
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