init 3 problems: xorg spikes to 100% cpu

[Justin Conover]

On 10/3/06, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:13:05AM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> >> Running *init 3* from gnome-terminal, sends Xorg to 100% cpu
> utilization and
> >> never drops to init 3.
> >
> > Does it make a difference is you will do 'telinit 3'?  A section
> > CHANGING RUNLEVELS in 'man init' explicitely talks about telinit.
>
> The same man page also mentions how, for any instance of the program
> where getpid() != 1, it acts like telinit.
>
> As with any program that hits 100% CPU usage, ssh in, attach to it with
> gdb, get a backtrace, find out where it's spinning.
>
> - ajax
>
> --


I will give that a go tomorrow.  I'm not that famillar with gdb and getting
backtrace's, can you list what I should do.

Thanks,
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