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.
Were you using any GL screensavers? I've found that the "flurry" screensaver would regularly cause my machine to hang overnight - it seems like "flurry" core dumps and locks the X server.
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