On 09 Aug 2001 08:55:52 CDT, Michael Heldebrant writes: >Well at least we know it's not XMMS. Perhaps a downgrade to 4.0.3 X >will restore some stability for you. They don't call it "unstable" for >no reason sometimes ;>
>> This is all included for completeness at his point - I removed XMMS, and it >> the entire sytem hung again, same way. Locked up, no keyboard acces, >> nothing. I reran XFree86 -configure, as the X server is the only thing >> that has been running each time. I also changed the mouse over from ttyS0 >> to ttyS1 (where XFree86 found it this time), and I'm investigating error >> messages at X startup - all of them font related, though, so I'm not sure >> that they are relevant. Now that I no longer think it's XMMS, I'm sort of >> in a quandary. Thanks for your help. Well, I think there could be 2 reasons for the lockups, one of them actually being xmms. I run xmms on two of my boxen, one w/ kernel 2.0.38 and X 3.3.6, the other kernel 2.2.19 and X 4. Both sometimes lock up when using xmms. And only then. Never been able to get any useful information, though, even when running strace the machine hangs before displaying anything useful :/ Oh, and on the 2.0.38 box xmms is setuid root, on the other it´s not. cheers, &rw -- -- The difference between sex and death is that with death -- you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- - Woody Allen ----
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