[opensuse] Xorg looping - how to report?
All, I'm openSUSE 10.2 and occasionally I'll see Xorg looping. The entire screen appears to be hung, also does not respond to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nor to Ctrl-Alt-F1. When I log in from another system (ssh), Xorg is running at 100%, and the only way out is to kill it, and let it restart. A couple of time this seems to have happened in connection with start openoffice. This happens maybe once a week - the workstation is running 24h/day, and is otherwise hardly ever restarted. I'm not really very familiar with how to debug KDE/X, but I'd like to get rid of this really annoying problem. How should I go about reporting it? I.e. what kind of diagnostics should I provide? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 09:37 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
All,
I'm openSUSE 10.2 and occasionally I'll see Xorg looping. The entire screen appears to be hung, also does not respond to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nor to Ctrl-Alt-F1. When I log in from another system (ssh), Xorg is running at 100%, and the only way out is to kill it, and let it restart. A couple of time this seems to have happened in connection with start openoffice.
Does killing openoffice and/or every other application that might be talking to the x server free it up?
This happens maybe once a week - the workstation is running 24h/day, and is otherwise hardly ever restarted. I'm not really very familiar with how to debug KDE/X, but I'd like to get rid of this really annoying problem. How should I go about reporting it? I.e. what kind of diagnostics should I provide?
I think the place to check whether other people are seeing the problem and to report it if not starts here: http://www.x.org/wiki/Home#head-c83e27a52008701dece8cc119828e9ccba921e7c In terms of what to report, an strace is quick and can be useful, as well as details of the software build and configuration and your hardware. I'd guess the folks on the xorg mail list or irc can tell you more. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I have seen apparent freezes, but usually it was ssh asking for a password on the tty0 rather than a dialog. Other cases have been when Mozilla dumped. Seemed to react to C-M-1 ==John ff -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:02:24PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 09:37 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm openSUSE 10.2 and occasionally I'll see Xorg looping. The entire screen appears to be hung, also does not respond to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nor to Ctrl-Alt-F1. When I log in from another system (ssh), Xorg is running at 100%, and the only way out is to kill it, and let it restart. A couple of time this seems to have happened in connection with start openoffice.
I have also seen this happen. In my case the last couple of times it happened was when, using ooffice, I went to the "File" menu. That is, I had been using ooffice for a while without trouble, entering information to a spreadsheet, and when I went to the "File" menu, X locked (same symptoms: 100% CPU).
Does killing openoffice and/or every other application that might be talking to the x server free it up?
Killing ooffice doesn't solve anything. I didn't try to kill other random apps. Im my case, I am using the fvwm2 window manager and I think I am using the Nvidia driver: grep nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf Driver "nvidia" For me, this problem started after the upgrade to 10.2. Before it (9.3) I don't remember such a problem in connection with ooffice.
This happens maybe once a week - the workstation is running 24h/day, and is otherwise hardly ever restarted.
Same here. At this moment, my X has been running for the past 21 days. As you can imagine, having to kill X is _very_ disrupting. -- rps -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro wrote:
I have also seen this happen. In my case the last couple of times it happened was when, using ooffice, I went to the "File" menu. That is, I had been using ooffice for a while without trouble, entering information to a spreadsheet, and when I went to the "File" menu, X locked (same symptoms: 100% CPU).
Yep, exactly the same here - the "File" menu.
This happens maybe once a week - the workstation is running 24h/day, and is otherwise hardly ever restarted.
Same here. At this moment, my X has been running for the past 21 days. As you can imagine, having to kill X is _very_ disrupting.
Absolutely. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm openSUSE 10.2 and occasionally I'll see Xorg looping. The entire screen appears to be hung, also does not respond to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nor to Ctrl-Alt-F1. When I log in from another system (ssh), Xorg is running at 100%, and the only way out is to kill it, and let it restart. A couple of time this seems to have happened in connection with start openoffice.
Does killing openoffice and/or every other application that might be talking to the x server free it up?
I've not tried killing every X app - only openoffice. Which didn't help.
I think the place to check whether other people are seeing the problem and to report it if not starts here:
http://www.x.org/wiki/Home#head-c83e27a52008701dece8cc119828e9ccba921e7c
In terms of what to report, an strace is quick and can be useful, as well as details of the software build and configuration and your hardware. I'd guess the folks on the xorg mail list or irc can tell you more.
Thanks. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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