Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-12-08 Thread jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
Hi everyone, Just thought I would write a quick update on this issue and moreover a thank you to all the people who have been helping me resolve this. As it currently stands, while I have not managed to resolve this, I strongly believe this does not have much to do with the X server and related t

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-06 Thread jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
Hi again, Felix, Thomas and Ilya, thank you so much for the suggestions. >Try a substantially different environment, one without GDM, and as little of >>GTK as possible (QT-based, unlike XFCE4), e.g. TDE: >https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DebianInstall I see that they don't have stable packages

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-06 Thread Ilya Anfimov
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:22:36PM +0530, jeetu.gol...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi everyone, > > First, I am a big fan of the remote display capabilities of X, thank > you very much to all who have worked on this project over the years. > You could try to use wireshark and/or tcpdump to dump and an

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-05 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 12:31:59AM +0530, jeetu.gol...@gmail.com wrote: Can you think of something else we can try so we can further pinpoint where the problem lies or any thoughts at all on the above? Only more wild guesses, maybe input/event handling? GTK_IM_MODULE=xim GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-05 Thread Felix Miata
jeetu.gol...@gmail.com composed on 2016-10-06 00:31 (UTC+0530): Can you think of something else we can try so we can further pinpoint where the problem lies or any thoughts at all on the above? Try a substantially different environment, one without GDM, and as little of GTK as possible (QT-ba

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-05 Thread jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
Hi Thomas, I had the opportunity to run more tests based on your suggestion. The following are my findings : - LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 These environment variables do not seem to have made any difference. I was still getting the desktop freeze with th

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-04 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 12:38:52AM +0530, jeetu.gol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Thank you for replying. I truly am at wits end here and appreciate any help. Can you calso cause this with something >simple as "xterm" (ie, running gnome terminal under xfce likely won't >help much) If I X fo

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-04 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:30:31PM +0530, jeetu.gol...@gmail.com wrote: - Used Xfce4 instead of Gnome. No luck. Can you calso cause this with something simple as "xterm" (ie, running gnome terminal under xfce likely won't help much) - Managed to get the modesetting driver to work with Xfce4

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-04 Thread jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
Hi Thomas, Thank you for replying. I truly am at wits end here and appreciate any help. >Can you calso cause this with something >simple as "xterm" (ie, running >gnome terminal under xfce likely won't >help much) If I X forward something simple like xterm over my Retroshare tunnel via SSH, it wo

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-04 Thread jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
Hi Felix, Thanks for pointing me to the debugging resources. I tried the following based on your suggestions : - Used Xfce4 instead of Gnome. No luck. - Managed to get the modesetting driver to work with Xfce4 (didn't work with gnome). No luck and X still freezes. Apart from the resources you

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-03 Thread Felix Miata
jeetu.gol...@gmail.com composed on 2016-10-04 10:14 (UTC+0530): Maybe try the modesetting driver at least on the Intel/Sid installation. Unfortunately when I use the default modesetting driver my X consistently crashes simply by starting gnome-terminal and doing something simple like traversi

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-03 Thread jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
Hi Felix, Thank you for responding. >Maybe try the modesetting driver at least on the Intel/Sid installation. Unfortunately when I use the default modesetting driver my X consistently crashes simply by starting gnome-terminal and doing something simple like traversing it's menus. This causes the

Re: Need help understanding X server freeze

2016-10-03 Thread Felix Miata
jeetu.gol...@gmail.com composed on 2016-10-03 23:22 (UTC+0530): - I tried using the Vesa xorg driver instead of the Intel driver on Machine 1, just to see if that had any change in behaviour (even though I see this same behaviour with the radeon driver). No joy. When using the tunnel, the X serv