X server hangs; reboot required
Vladimir G. Ivanovic
vladimir at acm.org
Fri Nov 12 18:14:19 UTC 2004
I am not using an nvidia driver. I have an ATI Radeon 7200 and I'm
using the stock Fedora driver, "kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko".
--- Vladimir
--
Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir
Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014
>>>>> "s" == shrek-m <shrek-m at gmx.de> writes:
s>
s> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
s>
>> Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
>>
>>> I'm disappointed that the random X server hangs are still present in
>>> FC3. (I can't find the bug in Bugzilla; I know it's there because I
>>> think I commented on it. I wasn't the original filer.)
>>>
>>> What happens is that X exits abruptly. The screen contains whatever
>>> was on it at the time, but of course nothing works. It is possible to
>>> log in and start up another X session, but when that session exits,
>>> the screen still contains what was on it when X first exited.
>>>
>>> With FC2 and older kernels, this kind of hang happened a half to a
>>> dozen times a day. Now the frequency is down to 1 every other day, or
>>> so.
>>
>> My biggest complaint with the FC2 X hangs is that the keyboard is
>> always "dead" (no response, can't change VC to a text window) and
>> *most* of the time the mouse is "dead" as well; though I have had a
>> couple of hangs in the middle of actively using X and the mouse
>> motion remains, mouse clicks are not processed; but most have
>> occurred while the system in idle and running a screensaver. Its
>> obvious because the screensaver stop changing. The rest of the
>> sysytem continues to run normally. My http server still runs, I
>> still get email, other processes continue to run. During the X
>> hangs, I have to login remotely, and top shows that the "X" process
>> is chewing all of the otherwise unused CPU time (usually > 85%), but
>> is recoverable if the "X" process is killed (usually requires a
>> "kill -9"). My frequency under FC2 is 1 hang every day or two.
>>
>> I'm interested in knowing how these symptoms change in FC3....
s>
s>
s> nvidia-driver ??
s>
s> i am using rh 9, fedora core 1|2|3 20/6/350 =
s> hours_the_day/days_per_week/days in_year without your described
s> problems with the NV-driver
s> the last time i had such problems was in rh 8.0 with the NVIDIA-driver.
s>
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