Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox
(mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent me
a file over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 will
lock up and refuse all interaction.
All windows stop responding; xmms keeps playing; keyboard locks up and
the mouse, although free to wiggle around won't cross from one screen
to another. Logging in from another machine over SSH, top reveals that
X is occupying 90-something% of the CPU; killing individual
applications like firefox or xmms doesn't do anything but killing X
gives me back a working, functional login screen.
This is, as you might imagine, amazingly annoying. For whatever reason,
it'll happen when I click specific links in Firefox (i.e. my
professor's labs & assignments link) or alt tab away or back into
Firefox. I haven't lost much work yet, thanks to my habit of using vim
in screen but otherwise it's frustrating to either boot up a 2nd (non
linux) comp or hitting the restart button.
It started when I accidentally updated a bunch of packages using ~x86
keywords but I've recompiled xorg and firefox back to their 'stable'
versions; sooner or later I'm going to try to recompile everything down
to their stable versions but in the meanwhile, any suggestions?
- [gentoo-user] X freezes & locks up, constantly Phill MV
