on Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:34:24AM +0100, Thomas Adam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Typically, X freezes. Mouse responds, but keyboard doesn't, including > > modifier keys such as capslock, numlock, and scroll/lock. > > <ctrl><alt><F[1-6]> doesn't take me to a console. > > I get this, and there is various bug reports for the 'xserver-xfree86' > package that allude to the symptoms descibed, but none that says it all. > chvt() calls though are iffy at times from X-> console due to the various > complexities that take place. > > > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsen/Images/screen-artifacts.png > > > > (The artifacts are circled in yellow -- the circles aren't the artifacts > > ;-). > > That's a lie, isn't it, Karsten? :P I get a 404 trying that URI. > > > - I've _just_ upgraded yesterday to 2.6 kernel from 2.4.25, though > > problem appears to have existed prior to this. > > 2.6 kernels have been known to break X in the manner you are having. I > suggest trying a 2.4.X. The only thing I can suggest is for you to try a > 2.4.X kernel and report back.
With some help from Thomas on the #debian IRC channel last night, I
managed to get my system shut down (again: shutdown and init 0 weren't
working) and rebooted. Well. Took a hard boot.
At the suggestion of simonrvn and peterS, I set the 'nice' value for X
to 0 (rather than -10) in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. Apparently the 2.6
kernel scheduler improvements are sufficiently good that one can bypass
the old hack of nicing X to a higher priority.
Things looked pretty good up until this evening. Came home from work
and looked at stuff briefly around 8:30 pm, was OK. By 11 pm X was
locked hard showing an xscreensaver hack ("Attraction (orbital)" FWIW).
X11 is once again running at high CPU:
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top - 00:50:26 up 19:26, 31 users, load average: 1.15, 1.20, 1.44
Tasks: 225 total, 4 running, 220 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 24.0% us, 3.8% sy, 0.3% ni, 69.9% id, 1.2% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.6% si
Mem: 452228k total, 449304k used, 2924k free, 47492k buffers
Swap: 1060208k total, 106244k used, 953964k free, 83140k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3925 root 25 0 147m 49m 72m R 90.8 11.2 187:37.41 XFree86
26750 karsten 16 0 2228 1060 1884 R 7.4 0.2 0:00.07 top
5947 karsten 15 0 9396 3812 7716 S 1.9 0.8 0:15.00 irssi
1 root 16 0 1528 492 1376 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.07 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.55 events/0
4 root 7 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
5 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
37 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.00 kblockd/0
47 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.42 pdflush
48 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.81 pdflush
50 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
49 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.31 kswapd0
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Thomas's next advice is to try the 2.4 kernel again, which sounds
reasonable.
Peace.
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Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
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