Hi,
I'm not expecting a 'do this and it'll be fixed' answer - I'm just after some pointers to help me track down what is going on. Once I have some better data/logs I might return with more info: Here's the symptoms: Every now and again, for no apparent reason whatsoever, X locks up *totally*. No mouse, no keyboard response (including no toggling of keyboard lights), nothing. However linux is still running because I can ssh in from another machine and investigate from there. In every case, the only process using more than 1% of the CPU (using top) is 'XFree86' - it sits there on > 96%CPU and never comes down. If I kill -9 it, game over. Total system crash. The only thing that seems to work is an init 6 (reboot). I have tried going through and selectively killing X clients to see if the X server will spring back into life. It doesn't. Even killing the window manager (fluxbox) doesn't stop X. I'm running X from a tty with the xinit command. It's 4.1.0-17 (debianised) and running dual-head xinerama over two Nvidia cards (using their driver: 2880). Kernel is 2.4.19-pre8 with a video4linux2 patch. I had a very similar problem when I ran X not in xinerama but as two 'screens' (:0.0 and :0.1 i think) - if I moved a window off the far right hand side of my combined desktop and 'wiggled' it around a bit (so it's half-on, half-off, kinda) sooner or later, same problem. Lock up. Not sure if it's exactly the same tho - now there's nothing that I do that seems to cause it. How can I begin to track this problem down? It's unrepeatable (although frequent enough to be annoying) and there's no screen output I can capture it would seem. XFree86.0.log contains nothing useful. Nor does syslog. Any thoughts? Thanks, David. David Antliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design Engineer Med-Dev Ltd. tel. +64-4-972-7661 Wellington, New Zealand www.med-dev.co.nz _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
