What video driver and graphics card are you using? Are you using Ubuntu, Kubuntu or another flavour? Does the screensaver kick in or does the desktop get locked, before CPU climbs up? If CPU is at 100% can you switch to a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F1) (or ssh to your machine) and attach gdb to the Xorg process? ("gdb -p PID_OF_XORG_PROCESS"). To make this useful, you should install the debug symbols (xserver-xorg-core-dbgsym at least). Please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging for any other information that may be interesting.
(btw: I've found two similar bugs: bug 98668 and bug 61250) ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => dAniel hAhler (blueyed) Status: New => Incomplete -- Xorg climbs to 100% and locks up idle system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157756 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs