More X freezes

[Kevin J. Cummings]

I was running happily along with the latest kernel (2.6.8-1.528) and the 
latest xorg updates about 3 weeks ago (just before the last round of 
xorg updates?).  In addition, I was running the nvidia video driver 
version 6106.  I was experiencing *no* hangs from the X server since 
upgrading to this nvidia release.

Then, when the last xorg updates came through, I also upgraded to the 
6111 nvidia driver, *AND* I turned on pre-linking.  After restarting X, 
it froze up on me about 3 days later (after a prlonged idle period: the 
screensaver hangs, the keyboard gets ignored, the mouse doesn't work, 
and if I go to another computer and ssh in, I see that "X" is consuming 
all the cpu cycles it can get its hands on.)  The only way to recover is 
to "telinit 3", then kill the running X server and wait for it to clean 
up.  At this point, I still don't have mouse or keyboard control, until 
I issue "telinit 5" and the X server restarts.  Then the console 
keyboard and mouse work again.

I tried backing the nvidia driver back to 6106, but I experienced 
another hang 2-3 days later, so I'm pretty sure its not the nvidia driver.

I am now beginning to suspect that its the pre-link stuff I installed 
and started up.  Here's the big question:  Can I just un-install the 
prelink RPM?  What about all of the binaries that have already been 
pre-linked?  Any way to restore them to their "pre" pre-linked states?
I suspect that I'll rebuild the nvidia module again after I remove 
prelink (anyways), and report back here if I get another hang....

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Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us