[gentoo-user] problem with X locking up

[Aaron Walker]

I got home from work this morning (I work nights), to find my machine 
locked up.  This also happened the day before last.  I could not switch 
to any of the terminals (via ctrl-alt-F1, etc).  I was able to login via 
ssh from another pc, however.  After running top, I noticed X was using 
99% cpu.  Sending X the SIGKILL signal was the only way I could get back 
into the box w/o rebooting.  I'm kind of awestruck because I've used 
linux for 6 or 7 years now and this is literally the first incident I've 
had with anything locking up on me. It's happened twice so far, both 
during the night while I was at work.  I would think if it was an 
overheating problem it would happen during the day while I am sleeping, 
but it hasn't so far.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Thanks,
Aaron
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