On 10 Feb 2002, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 12:53, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > After I switched to using Vanilla IceWM, the strange screen and keyboard
> > lockup has occured three time already. So far, it happened with KDE 2.2.2,
> > GNOME 1.4.x and Vanilla IceWM 1.0.9. I find it hard to believe that all of
> > them have a similar bug, especially vanilla icewm.
>
> Such lockups are sometimes caused by applications which request the X
> display to grab the keyboard / mouse but forget to release it. Of
> course, once those applications shutdown (and disconnect from the X
> display), their "grabbing" is released.
>
> You can use the Magic-SysRq feature in the kernel to get out of those
> "lockups". If Magic-SysRq is enabled, use Alt-SysRq-R to release the
> keyboard, then switch to another virtual console (via Alt-Ctrl-F1) and
> then I login via the console and kill the offeding X applicaiton.
> (to make sure you have Magic-SysRq enabled, make sure
> /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq contains '1')
>
I'll try that, thanks. But it obviously means that the applications are
buggy. Why doesn't the X-server releases it after a while automatically?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> Of course I don't really help you solve the issue, except that you might
> narrow down the offender.
>
>
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