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From: m3thos <m3thos@×××××××.pt>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o, gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 08:38:52
Message-Id: 006e01c18576$6a383c30$0200a8c0@tigre
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu by Dan Armak
1 The same kind of lookups happened to me in my debian box.
2 I believe that the problem is related with the nvidia drivers, i also use
3 the latest nvidia driver.
4
5
6 Miguel Sousa Filipe
7
8 ----- Original Message -----
9 From: "Dan Armak" <danarmak@g.o>
10 To: <gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org>
11 Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 5:11 PM
12 Subject: [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu
13
14
15 > Hi all,
16 >
17 > On my new r12 system I've had a hangup in X11. No apparent cause. The
18 system
19 > stopped accepting any input and the screen didn't even complete a redraw.
20 The
21 > mouse went on moving as it was in h/w, but clicks were no good. Magic
22 sysrq
23 > wasn't responding either.
24 >
25 > I logged in via ssh, and top showed X was taking 100% cpu. I tried killall
26 X,
27 > no effect. I tried kill -9 <X pid>, the remote login hung up and i
28 couldn't
29 > ssh to it again. I had to do a hard reboot.
30 >
31 > Then I expirienced the same effect twice on an old rc5 system which
32 underwent
33 > absolutely no updates or config changes for a few months now. Only this
34 was
35 > standalone not on a net, so I couldn't login via ssh.
36 >
37 > Both rc6 lockups were when running kmail, both rc5 lockups while running
38 > ksirc.
39 >
40 > Trying to send this message, I had another lockup on the rc6 system, hope
41 > this reaches you.
42 >
43 > I'm absolutely mystified. Ideas? Anyone seen this kind of thing before?
44 >
45 > --
46 >
47 > Dan Armak
48 > Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
49 > Matan, Israel
50 >
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