Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (99 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Onsdag 10 september 2008 20:51:57 skrev Scott Newton:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2008 20:31:17 Scott Newton wrote:
> > Attached are screenshots of top immediately after booting and the next
> > morning when X just gives me a blank screen. The first list is sorted by
> > virtual memory size, the second by memory usage (RES).
>
> Just to add. In fact it does come out of power save mode. I get the cursor
> on the screen and I can move it. The rest of the screen remains a stubborn
> black though.

I'm afraid I'm seeing the same thing ;-(

My box can run all day - solid as a rock.

But if I leave it for a few hours, the monitor will go on standby after 10 
minutes, when I return and activate the mouse, it'll come out of standby, but 
the desktop will be completely frozen - I can move the cursor around, but 
can't click anything and (kde) keyboard shortcuts don't work. 

I _can_ however get to the virtual consoles (ctrl+alt+Fx). If I run 'top' in 
the virtual consoles everything appears to be running normally including 
plasma and I can kill processes and everything. If I return to the graphical 
session (ctrl+alt+F7) from the consoles, there'll just be a white screen. 
Zapping X (ctrl+alt+backspace) also works, and will take me to kdm and the 
system will be ready to go back to work.

I have seen this 3-4 times now. It doesn't happen every time my monitor goes 
to standby, but it seems to happen consistently if I leave it on standby for 
long enough (apparently >~2 hrs). There's no suspend here - just monitor going 
on standby.

Unfortunately I didn't think much of it the first time it happened, so I can't 
really say when the issue started - but it was recently - I suspect either the 
4.1.1 updates did it, or the updates with the cube in them.

I don't think it's memory related - if it were a leak I'd expect swap to be 
also used, and the system wouldn't just keep on trucking after zapping X, the 
whole system would crash not just X and/or KDE.

My system is 11.0 with 4.1.1/factory desktop, nvidia fx5500 (using the KMPs), 
desktop effects enabled including the cube.
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